Bug#705909: libmath-prime-util-perl: FTBFS (failing tests) on some architectures

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Dana

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:57:35PM -0700, Dana Jacobsen wrote:
> I just found this report of build failures on the Debian mailing list -- I
> had not seen these before.  I managed to reproduce it on a Power7 machine,
> and found the fix.
> 
> I see that the issue came up when I switched the ranged moebius return
> value from an IV*  (long *) to char*.  On every other machine, char is
> being treated as signed.  On these platforms it is unsigned (which they
> technically may do).  I switched to explicit signed char and that seems to
> have fixed it.  I'll get a release out next week.

I know you just said above there will be a release fixing this in the
coming week. To keep the diff a bit smaller at least I have uploaded
the 0.28 package to unstable (including the patch), so can be used as
additional step to verify it builds now again[1].

 [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libmath-prime-util-perl

Regards,
Salvatore