Bug#724711: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-11 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:35:37 +0100 Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > > disable them for now. > > Not "disable", of course, but "ignore". It would be useful to see the > results in the log. > > I don't have all the results for 4.12 because it doesn't build

Bug#724711: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-10 Thread Matt McCormick
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Gert Wollny wrote: > In summary, the package is too big for me to fix bugs like these in my > spare time, usually I just forward bugs to upstream, but since they are > not interested in fixing other archs than amd64 and i386 I'm not going >

Bug#724711: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-10 Thread Gert Wollny
Am Donnerstag, den 10.08.2017, 08:33 +0100 schrieb Edmund Grimley Evans: > > As far as I can see all tests are disabled, failing tests means > > that > > the software has bugs, and I'm not sure whether we want to allow > > software with known bugs into the archives. > > Yes, but if the bug is in

Bug#724711: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-10 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
> As far as I can see all tests are disabled, failing tests means that > the software has bugs, and I'm not sure whether we want to allow > software with known bugs into the archives. Yes, but if the bug is in the test then disabling the test is one way of fixing the bug. On the other hand, a

Bug#724711: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-10 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, >As far as I can see all tests are disabled, failing tests means that >the software has bugs, and I'm not sure whether we want to allow >software with known bugs into the archives. At the least it must be >documented which tests are failing. >Gianfranco, since you did the upload to

Bug#724711: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-10 Thread Gert Wollny
> Ubuntu built 4.9.0, 4.10.0 and 4.10.1 on arm64: > > http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/universe/i/insighttoolkit4/ > > Though it looks like they may have ignored a few test failures to get > there: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/insighttoolkit4/+changelog As far as I can

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2017-08-09 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
Control: user debian-...@lists.debian.org Control: usertag -1 + arm64 Please consider adding arm64. Ubuntu built 4.9.0, 4.10.0 and 4.10.1 on arm64: http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/universe/i/insighttoolkit4/ Though it looks like they may have ignored a few test failures to get there:

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2015-06-26 Thread Matt McCormick
Upstream has improved architecture support in 4.8.0, to be released in about a week. However, more software quality dashboard [1] builds are needed as are contributors to address detected issues. :-) Steve Robbins has submitted Debian Sid for i386 and amd64 builds for many years, which has helped

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2015-06-26 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
However, I make no distinction: software that builds but doesn't run correctly is no more valuable than software that doesn't build. Are you sure that the software is not running correctly on other architectures? It could just be that some tests are buggy. They often are, in my experience. Can

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2013-09-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:35:37AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:14:13AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: It seems that insighttoolkit4 4.4.2-2 restricted itself to support i386 and amd64. The only reason I can find for that is that the test suite had some errors on

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2013-09-27 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On September 27, 2013 09:22:58 AM Kurt Roeckx wrote: As far as I can see, it builds, it just fails in the test suite. Sometimes the build itself fails but often it is indeed the test cases. However, I make no distinction: software that builds but doesn't run correctly is no more valuable

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2013-09-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Source: insighttoolkit4 Version: 4.4.2-2 Severity: serious Hi, It seems that insighttoolkit4 4.4.2-2 restricted itself to support i386 and amd64. The only reason I can find for that is that the test suite had some errors on the other arches. I generally find this a poor excuse to drop support

Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

2013-09-26 Thread Steve M. Robbins
severity 724711 wishlist thanks On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:14:13AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: It seems that insighttoolkit4 4.4.2-2 restricted itself to support i386 and amd64. The only reason I can find for that is that the test suite had some errors on the other arches. I generally find