[Pkg-octave-devel] [RFU] octave-interval 3.1.0-1

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 07:50:18AM +0100, Oliver Heimlich wrote:
> On 27.12.2017 06:37, Oliver Heimlich wrote:
> > Am 26. Dezember 2017 22:03:52 MEZ schrieb "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien at debian.org>:
> >> On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 01:09:21PM +0100, Oliver Heimlich wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks for checking. I have addressed all these findings in revision
> >>> 2aaf67b5554319ebdb4d57ac0d379c818e178377.
> >>
> >> I uploaded it after making a few more changes (see the git).
> 
> 
> >> The last problem is that the autopkgtest fails badly, and it is not
> >> immediately
> >> clear to me why. I nevertheless made the upload because we need to fix
> >> the RC
> >> bugs. Please have a look at the autopkgtest logs when they appear (or
> >> even
> >> better, try to run them locally) and fix the problems in the next
> >> upload.
> > 
> > In the logs I can see problems with loading the test data:
> > 
> > ***** shared testdata 
> >  # Load compiled test data (from src/test/*.itl)
> >  testdata = load (file_in_loadpath ("test/itl.mat")); 
> > !!!!! test failed load: unable to find file
> > shared variables scalar structure containing the fields:
> >  testdata = [](0x0)
> 
> Apparently, the inst/test folder is missing in the .deb package.  It
> should have been installed to /usr/share/.
> 
> In revision 5c1861a5e38a9bef68a0da25b652a516997e420b I have stripped the
> test files from the installed package after they have been validated
> (before building the package).  With autopkgtest the package is tested
> after installation.  So, the test files have to be packaged again to
> make this work.
> 
> Also, I can find a failing test in mpfr_matrix_mul_d.cc, where
> multi-thread performance is measured and compared against single-thread
> execution.  Probably, the Debian tests servers can't provide an
> environment where this can be tested in a reliable way.  I'd suggest to
> make this test case a known failure (xtest).

Note that octave-interval FTBFS on armel:

 https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-interval&arch=armel&ver=3.1.0-1&stamp=1514325840&raw=0

There are two options: the preferred one is of course to fix the build; the
alternative is to request the removal of the binary on armel.

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