[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#867197: src:yt: FTBFS on ppc64el: test failure

[Scott Kitterman]

Package: src:yt
Version: 3.3.3-2
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

The package FTBFS during binNMU to add ptyhon3.6 to supported python3
versions, but as far as I can see from the log, the test failure is in the
python2.7 part of the tests, so unrelated.  Here's an exerpt from the
build log:

yt : [INFO     ] 2017-07-04 16:05:40,290 Making a fixed resolution buffer of (('connect1', 'test')) 800 by 800
yt : [INFO     ] 2017-07-04 16:05:41,168 Saving plot UnstructuredMeshData_Slice_z_test.png
Segmentation fault
debian/rules:31: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_test' failed
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_test] Error 139
make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
debian/rules:8: recipe for target 'build-arch' failed
make: *** [build-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build-arch gave error exit status 2

Scott K

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=yt&arch=ppc64el&ver=3.3.3-2%2Bb1&stamp=1499184352&raw=0