Re: [Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#881845: Bug#881845: Bug#881845: rustc: FTBFS on mips*: test failures

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:36 PM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 07/17/2018 02:29 PM, Aron Xu wrote:
> > As a temporary solution to unblock, I've built the package on a
> > loongson-3a box and uploaded. It is the same hardware as eberlin.d.o,
> > which in turn suggests this could be related to Cavium hardware.
>
> Unless DSA is willing to blacklist the rustc package on the buildd hardware
> where it doesn't build (if that's actually the case), this won't work and
> will cause the package to FTBFS if it hits the wrong buildd.
>
> For Debian Ports, this would be acceptable. Don't know about release architectures
> though. The policy could be different there.
>

Want to add that, on Debian Ports porters are allowed to include some
trivial patches to make the package build/useful, while what I have
done is a binary-only build without any source package change.

Regards,
Aron