[Pkg-octave-devel] octave-ltfat_2.2.0+dfsg-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le lundi 09 janvier 2017 à 10:11 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> * Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org> [2017-01-06 00:17]:
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2017-01-04 17:41]:
> >> The latest version of octave-ltfat FTBFS on mips64el. It looks like 
> >> the testsuite ran for too long without displaying anything.
> >>
> >> Possible fixes include:
> >>
> >> - have the problematic test display something every N minutes 
> >> - ask for the removal of the mips64el binary in unstable
> >
> > Would it be acceptable to check the architecture in d/check.m and skip 
> > the tests if we are on mips64el?
> 
> I went ahead and committed the change mentioned above.  This is a trivial 
> way to avoid FTBFS on mips64el.  If it is inappropriate, of if we find a 
> better way to cope with the problem, we can revert the change in the 
> future.

Sorry for replying late.

My personal inclination would have been to remove the binary on
mips64el, because I think that it is better to ship no binary than to
ship a possibly buggy binary.

But your solution is also fine with me. And you're the maintainer.

Cheers,

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