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Re: since: Does not work on mips (includes test suite failures and FTBFS)



On Sat, 2014-03-29 07:17:33 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: since
> Version: 1.1-4
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Package version 1.1-4 added a build-time test-suite which revealed
> that since on mips does not work properly:
> 
> $ echo foo > foo
> $ since foo
> foo
> $ since foo
> since: considering foo to be truncated, displaying from start
> foo
> $ 
> 
> Expected behaviour would be:
> 
> $ echo foo > foo
> $ since foo
> foo
> $ since foo
> $
> 
> I'll contact upstream about this and #591386 and if we don't find a
> proper fix that soonish, I'll probably drop these two architectures
> from the package.

At imgtec.com, we are testing a fix for this bug. A patch will be posted
soon.

> Given the different symptoms, I suspect that this issue and #591386
> (does not work on Hurd) are different issues.
> 
> 		Regards, Axel
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