From f0c708b0f008ff14e1127e0b833e30f2acf17228 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:45:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix test of little-endian dtype for big-endian systems

---
 h5py/tests/test_big_endian_file.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/h5py/tests/test_big_endian_file.py b/h5py/tests/test_big_endian_file.py
index 83fb92aa9..4d81de01a 100644
--- a/h5py/tests/test_big_endian_file.py
+++ b/h5py/tests/test_big_endian_file.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def test_vlen_big_endian():
         assert f["DSBEfloat"].dtype == ">f8"
 
         assert f["DSLEint"][0] == 1
-        assert f["DSLEint"].dtype == "uint64"
+        assert f["DSLEint"].dtype == "<u8"
 
         # Same int values with big endianess
         assert f["DSBEint"][0] == 1

From aff4cd536ba6042e023142af140c893536245606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:08:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add news entry for test fix

---
 news/test-endian-dtype.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 news/test-endian-dtype.rst

diff --git a/news/test-endian-dtype.rst b/news/test-endian-dtype.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9efd927d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/test-endian-dtype.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+New features
+------------
+
+* <news item>
+
+Deprecations
+------------
+
+* <news item>
+
+Exposing HDF5 functions
+-----------------------
+
+* <news item>
+
+Bug fixes
+---------
+
+* <news item>
+
+Building h5py
+-------------
+
+* <news item>
+
+Development
+-----------
+
+* Fix a test which was failing on big-endian systems.