Hi,
Today I was debugging the failing autopkgtest of liferea, a graphical
rss reader, on s390x [1]. Previously I already worked around another
crash that happens on s390x only. Although I wonder how useful a desktop
application like liferea is on such an architecture, I tried to get it
to work. Luckily dogtail (the framework I use to drive the test) has
screenshot functionality and I noticed that after requesting the help or
the FAQ, there is no text in the window that on other architectures
shows the content of the help/FAQ. Once the tests for 1.15.6-2 or higher
run on ci.debian.net, the screenshots will be part of the artifacts tar
that can be downloaded from the web page.
I'm suspecting that something in the lower layers is broken, but I have
absolutely no evidence. Filing this bug just for visibility. For
avoidance of doubt, I consider here 3 things (which I suspect are related):
1) the crash in the "liferea.dump()" call is highly suspicious
2) the button for the Help should be the same across architectures
3) the screenshots for the help and FAQ should show the content
Paul
[1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/l/liferea/testing/s390x/