[Pkg-octave-devel] Fwd: Bug#876777: octave-stk FTBFS on i386: test failure

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 09:59:25PM +0200, Oliver Heimlich wrote:

> Am 3. Oktober 2017 18:06:37 MESZ schrieb Julien Bect <julien.bect at centralesupelec.fr>:

> >octave-stk has been marked for autoremoval from testing because of the 
> >following test failure on unstable/i386:
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> >Both functions (sqp, qp) are in Octave itself, and the problem is 
> >already known : http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38875.
> >
> >How should we deal with this issue to prevent octave-stk-2.4.2-1 from 
> >being removed from testing ?

> I'd suggest to mark it as an xtest, since there is nothing you can do about right now.

Sounds good to me. A Debian-specific patch (that can be removed later when
octave is fixed) is probably the easy way, but you can also do a new upstream
release if you prefer.

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