[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#877294: gnudatalanguage: gdl segfaults while running testsuite

[Ole Streicher]

The buildd (of 0.9.7-2b1) contains the list of failed tests (partially
with segfaults):

test_bug_3275334
test_file_search
test_hdf5
test_obj_isa
test_qhull
test_sem
test_tv
test_window_background

The CI tests contain lists of tests (d/tests/test-gdl.(xfail|ignore))
that are known to fail (and which are excluded there, or marked as
xfail). The only test from above that are not on the CI xfail/ignore
list is "test_file_search", which does not segfault according to the
build log:

% TEST_SPECIAL_PATHS: Error on operation : pb with ~
% TEST_SPECIAL_PATHS:   1 errors encoutered during TEST_SPECIAL_PATHS
tests

This may have something to do with a missing home dir.

I am not sure what to do with this bug; I think that I already reported
the problems upstream, so they are aware.