[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#834856: Bug#834856: python-pysam fails to build on mips64el arch.: failed test

[Aurelien Jarno]

On 2016-10-21 15:15, James Cowgill wrote:
> On 21/10/16 14:55, YunQiang Su wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
> > <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
> >> Control: severity -1 serious
> >>
> >> On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 22:29:48 -0700 Afif Elghraoui <afif at debian.org> wrote:
> >>> Control: severity -1 important
> >>> Control: tag -1 + help
> >>>
> >>> Hello and thank you for the report.
> >>>
> >>> على الجمعـة 19 آب 2016 ‫14:48، كتب Jonathan Jackson:
> >>>> Package: python-pysam
> >>>> Version: 0.9.1.4+ds-1
> >>>> Severity: grave
> >>>> Justification: renders package unusable
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> While the package may be unusable on mips64el, it works well for the
> >>> vast majority of users as I understand it, so this situation deserves a
> >>> severity of 'important' rather than 'grave'.
> >>
> >> mips64el is a release architecture, thus this bug is serious.
> > 
> > mips64el seems building successfully now, while mipsel fails.
> > I guess it is due to Loongson machine.
> 
> If mips64el has built (possibly one of the build machines is 'nicer' to
> it), is this bug RC anymore?
> 
> > Let me have a give-back on mipsel.
> 
> While it could help, the same segfault happens on armel, mipsel and x32
> according to the build logs. I don't think it's hardware specific.
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=python-pysam

I agree with this analysis. I confirm it doesn't build either on
eller.d.o and from what I have been able to start debugging with GDB, it
rather looks like some bug in the 32-bit support. There is something
wrong in htslib or the cython code which doesn't convert C struct into
Python struct correctly.

I therefore also suggest to downgrade the severity of this bug, maybe
also retitling it to say it fail to all 32-bit architectures.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien at aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net
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