Hey, maintainers, thanks for maintaining this package in Debian. I think this issue might have fallen through the cracks? So far as I can tell, clicking around Debian's package tracker, the timeline looks like this:
2026-05-27: Debian's schism package is updated to the newest upstream version, 20260524. 2026-05-28 (one day later): The person packaging schism for Fedora reports the PowerPC build failure to upstream, at: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker/issues/828 2026-06-28 (a month and a day later): This bug is filed, since Debian hit the same FTBFS-on-ppc64el problem with version 20260524 that Fedora hit. 2026-06-28 (still a month and a day later): This bug is marked as "fixed in versions schism/2:20260524-1" (i.e. the version where the FTBFS was detected) and "done". 2026-07-03 (a month and a bit later): Upstream commits a change titled "util: fix build on ppc64" targeting big-endian PowerPC, although they hope it will fix little-endian PowerPC too: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker/commit/5509849f2b7 2026-07-27 (two months later): The schism package is removed from testing, due to the continued failure to build on ppc64el. schism may not be the most popular package, but I think it would be a shame for it to fall out of Debian if cherry-picking the upstream patch would fix it. Timothy Allen.
