Dear Maintainer,

building on ppc64el with LTO fails in Launchpad.

Cf. https://launchpadlibrarian.net/684538812/buildlog_ubuntu-mantic-ppc64el.debug-me_1.20221231-1_BUILDING.txt.gz

Linking dist/build/debug-me/debug-me ...
/usr/bin/ld.gold: internal error in set_xindex, at ../../gold/object.h:1050
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc' failed in phase `Linker'. (Exit code: 1)

In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:

  * Disable LTO on the ppc64el architecture (LP: #2033639)

Thanks for considering the patch.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debug-me, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1052313@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debug-me package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2023 10:21:15 +0000
Source: debug-me
Architecture: source
Version: 1.20221231-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Closes: 1052313 1054930
Changes:
 debug-me (1.20221231-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Disable link time optimisation on ppc64el (Closes: #1052313).
     Thanks to Heinrich Schuchardt for the patch.
   * Bump Aeson dependency bounds to allow 2.1 (Closes: #1054930).
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checked 20231205, that this works on ppc64el. The work-around can be
removed.   Also it would be better not to rely on gold.