Olly Betts writes ("Re: Bug#1093153: xapian-omega autopkgtests and faketime on
32-bit"):
> Incidentally, having mulled it over it occurs to me that faketime's
> handling of this is also broken upstream. I'm not sure where other
> Linux distros which support 32-bit architectures are with their
> equivalent to our t64 transition but this seems likely to manifest
> somewhere outside of Debian so (with my xapian upstream hat on) maybe I
> should look at making the faketime test in omegatest.pl detect this case
> anyway.
The behaviour of the faketime currently in sid is the result of me
applying a patch from a Debian contributor, so not the same as
upstream. But ...
> It would be more satisfactory to test time() directly as that's
> what we actually need faketime to affect here.
... probably.
> Mostly mentioning as you may find the autopkgtest starts passing as
> a result. If this bug stays RC and against faketime until fixed that
> should prevent unwanted migration.
Noted. Thanks.
Ian.
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