Hi,

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 7:36 PM Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
>
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> That's great news. I hope that this can be extended to other problematic
> architectures like mips64el in future.
>
> > New upstream release fixed the issue see[0]:
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=gnome-shell&arch=riscv64
>
> No, the new upstream release works around the issue, allowing it to be
> downgraded from RC. The test suite is run with `--no-suite shell`,
> first on mips* and then on all architectures.
>
Thanks for sharing this. I thought these test cases had passed.:(

> The fact that a package does not FTBFS does not necessarily imply that
> its tests pass: sometimes we are forced to disable failing tests because
> Debian's policy around release architectures means that the alternative
> would be removing GNOME from Debian, which would be a disservice to
> our users.
Indeed.

I will reopen the issue with a non-RC severity. Sorry for the noise.

BR,
Bo
>
>     smcv

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