[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#819617: Bug#819617: bcftools: FTBFS: test suite fails on several architectures

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hi, Andreas,

على الخميس 27 تشرين الأول 2016 ‫23:39، كتب Andreas Tille:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 16:10:02 -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>> For the record here, building with -msse2 doesn't help on i386 (build
>> log attached). According to upstream discussion, the problem has to do
>> with NaNs.
> 
> So what can we actually do with this.  Bcftools has several reverse
> (Build-)Dependencies and we need to decide whether we drop the failed
> architectures for all these.
> 

Upstream's planned solution to this requires some changes to their
format specification (details are in the upstream bug report). I think
we just have to wait.

> Alternatively we could consider to document that some tests are failing
> on certain architectures and let those failed tests pass.
> 

I don't know if this is a good idea. The tests fail because inaccurate
results, not crashes. If we let these through, users on these
architectures would unsuspectingly get wrong output.

If we /really/ want to, we could make a different package for pysam's
bcftools interface. Reverse-dependencies that only need the samtools
interface could then be untethered from this bug. I wouldn't volunteer
to do this, though.


regards
Afif

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