On 11 December 2005 at 23:05, Steve Langasek wrote:
| On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 09:45:54PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > | > I can detail this some more if you wish but rest assured that there are
no
| > | > bus errors anywhere.
|
| > | Yes, there are. That was the reason for the failure in the build log that
|
| > It only looks that way when the error is caught.
|
| Are you telling me that foreign is *generating* an error message of "Bus
| error", on exactly those two Debian architectures that are prone to bus
| errors due to 64-bit reads from 32-bit-aligned addresses, but that no bus
| error is taking place in the actual software?
It is possible as they are, among other things, reading in data from other,
proprietary, 32 bit systems. In a regression test, trying to find corner
cases. These data sets are binary and generated from other software systems,
hence the need for the foreign package.
| > I still call it a no-panic situation. Now, as for cdbs, that I call a
| > panic...
|
| Right, which tells me that the package succeeded at running some examples or
| other, and then *fails* due to a software bug when running its regression
| tests. It sounds to me like you're saying you want to ignore a known
| regression; I don't understand why.
Popcon shows me 844 users of foreign. I have yet to receive a bug report from
a user of foreign after all the years in which it was split out of
r-recommdended.
So still no release-critical bug is what I continue to say.
Dirk
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