Hi Emilio, On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 05:05:22PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 17:14:19 -0700 Steve Langasek > <steve.langa...@canonical.com> > wrote: > > Package: harfbuzz > > Version: 1.7.2-1 > > Severity: minor > > Tags: patch > > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > > Usertags: origin-ubuntu bionic ubuntu-patch > > > > Dear maintainers, > > > > In Ubuntu we found a regression in freetype 2.8.1 due to unaligned memory > > access on armhf (when running on certain chips in certain kernel > > configurations) that was only discovered because it caused harfbuzz to fail > > to build on this architecture. > > > > It would have been useful to catch this regression much earlier, if the > > harfbuzz build-time test suite were run at the time the new version of > > freetype was introduced, instead of later as part of an archive rebuild > > test. > > > > So I've added a simple build-only autopkgtest to harfbuzz in Ubuntu; please > > see the attached patch, and please consider whether you think this would > > also be useful to have in Debian.
> Is that patch correct? It doesn't seem to be building anything? Because the test is 'Restrictions: build-needed', whenever the autopkgtest is run, the source package will automatically be rebuilt, and the test will fail if the rebuild fails. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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