* Olе Streicher <[email protected]>, 2012-01-24, 14:25:
The main problem is that on the mips and mipsel architectures the
packages compile but their unit tests fail - timeout on mips,
Does the test suite involve heavy floating-point computations? Two of
our mips buildds, corelli and lucatelli, doesn't have FPU, so it
wouldn't be surprising if they couldn't run such a testsuite in a
reasonable time. If this is the case, you probably want to ask mips
buildd maintainers to blacklist your package on these buildds.
and segfault on mipsel. The previous packaged version still didn't come
with unit tests. I informed the upstream author, but they probably more
concentrate on common platforms.
I think, for practical reasons, one would not use sextractor on a MIPS
machine yet, because it needs some processing power, so removing these
architectures until a fix is available would be a better alternative
thant using of a 6-year-old, buggy version (which never passed this
kind of unit-test).
It might be true that nobody will every use the package on MIPS. It's
even possible that the old package doesn't work on MIPS at all.
However it's also likely that the bug we're observing on MIPS exists
also on other architectures, but it's latent there.
How should I proceed here?
File an RC bug against the package, tag it "help", send a copy of the
bug report to [email protected].
--
Jakub Wilk
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