Bug#582410: (Fwd) Bug#582410: libgtk2-perl: FTBFS on mips: Failed test 'callbacks encountered'

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:06:15 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

> > > If the DISPLAY variable is empty, the unit tests will skip the
> > > attempts to do real drawing and such, and only test binding and
> > > marshaling code. This build mode is intended for use by automated
> > > packaging systems, and may be the best option.
> > In general I'm a bit reluctant to skip tests, but if it's the
> > upstream recommendation to skip those tests during automated building
> > that seems like a good reason.
> > What do other people from the Debian Perl Group think?
> I would say, let's follow upstream's reccomendation and thus skip for
> now these tests. If we have some other possibility then to access a
> mips machine directly we may try to further find more informations
> about that.

Ok, I've changed the package in svn accordingly.

Any other comments or proposals?

Cheers,
gregor

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