[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#867273: purify FTBFS on arm64 due to long-running test

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:43:09 +0100 Edmund Grimley Evans
<edmund.grimley.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that test takes a long time because it is using long double,
> which on arm64 has 128 bits and is implemented in software. Possible
> things to do:
> 
> * Change the default type (however and wherever it is defined) from
> "long double" to "double" on arm64, and perhaps other architectures.
> 
> * Get that particular test to use 64-bit floats.
> 
> * Get that test to generate some output as it runs so that it does not
> seem to be inactive.

This is now causing build failures on a release architecture where the package
previously built, so is RC. Bumping the severity accordingly. (The package
managed to get build on the arm-arm-04 buildd, perhaps due to different hardware
not having this problem).

Cheers,
Emilio