Bug#803178: libmongodb-perl: FTBFS on various architectures

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:53:08 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=libmongodb-perl
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libmongodb-perl&ver=1.0.2-1
> > 
> > The failing tests seem to be the same on all architectures, and they
> > are new in this release.
> 
> It's clearly an endianness issue. All the failing platforms are big
> endian and this looks pretty clear:

That was my guess too.
 
> Adding some diagnostics indicates the actual data encoding is stable
> between the platforms, but the test suite expectations depend on the
> endianness. The attached patch seems to fix this on at least s390x,
> but perhaps we should have a test run with it before pushing it upstream.

Thanks a lot!

I've uploaded the package with your patch now, let's see what the
buildds say.

As for forwarding upstream, does anyone already have an account at
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PERL ?
(There's another patch in the package but that's just spelling
fixes.)


Cheers,
gregor

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