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

[Julien Bect]

Le 04/10/2017 à 10:08, Sébastien Villemot a écrit :
> 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.

I have pushed a Debian-specific patch.  Can you please check that I did 
that right ?

If it's ok, I think that we should do a 2.4.2-2 release to prevent 
removal from testing.

@++
Julien