Source: arpack Version: 3.6.3-1 Severity: normal arpack currently FTBFS on hppa and ia64.
The build itself does not fail, nor do tests explicitly fail. Instead, the tests timeout. This seems to be a weakness in openmpi for ia64. I've seen similar test timeouts in scalapack, petsc, slepc. It doesn't necessarily indicate a bug in arpack itself. Since hppa and ia64 are minor (non-official) arches, I think Debian archive quality is not necessarily improved by letting these mpi timeouts prevent the package from contributing to the minor arches. If there is any real problem with the package, it can be caught in downstream packages or reported by actual users. That is, what I've done in scalapack, petsc, slepc, is skip tests for specific arches under these circumstances. I suggest skipping arpack tests on hppa and ia64. This could help improve the utility of the minor arches. I'd recommend the pattern I used for petsc rather than scalapack, since I made the test configuration more complex in scalapack (skipping all tests on some arches, ignoring some test failures on others). -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled