Bug#721051: RM: libdbd-firebird-perl [s390x] -- ROM; unusable on 64-bit big-endian machines

[Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: important

Please remove libdbd-firebird-perl from sid/s390x. The test failures in version 
1.12-1 observed on the buildd show that the package is completely unsuitable 
for release. Other (release) architectures pass all the tests (except of hang 
on mipsel, but I suspect buildd is to blame, asked for g-b on another buildd).
Similar failures are observed on other 64-bit big-endian architectures.

It has built in the past (once), but haven't run the part of the test suite 
that deals with the actual database work. Given the kind of test failures 
observed, I think that the current package is completely useless on s390x, and 
always was.

Build logs are at 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=libdbd-firebird-perl&arch=s390x

I am working on debugging the failures, but this may take time, and the package 
would be blocking the perl5.18 transition in the mean time. This is also the 
reason for the important severity.

There are no reverse-dependencies:

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dmn@coccia:~$ dak rm -n -a s390x -B -R libdbd-firebird-perl
W: -a/--architecture implies -p/--partial.
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

libdbd-firebird-perl |     1.11-1 | s390x

Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.
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Thanks in advance,
    dam