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

[Sébastien Villemot]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 10:34:00PM +0200, Julien Bect wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes it's good. I just added some more DEP-3 metadata.

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

Thanks, uploaded.

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