[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#915207: gnudatalanguage: autopkgtests fail: test_bug_n000720, test_idlneturl, test_point_lun, test_save_restore, test_zip

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

Control: reopen -1
Control: notfixed -1 gnudatalanguage/0.9.9-1
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: block 913837 by -1

Hi Ole,

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 10:59:03 +0100 Gilles Filippini wrote:
> Ole Streicher a écrit le 01/12/2018 à 21:08 :
> > I think that failing CI tests are not a reason for severity "serious",
> 
> Sure. As stated in the bug report, the reason for severity "serious" was
> that release team said it was a blocker for the HDF5 and netcdf
> transitions [1]. I should have mentioned this link.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=913837#34
>
> > and your test build should have succeeded independently of the tests.
> > GDL has quite a lot of tests failling, and I disable the known one in
> > the CI tests (only). So, CI test failure here shows that there were
> > unexpected failures.
> > 
> > Concidently, however, there was a new version of GDL published today,
> > which addresses a number of failures. Again, the failures known upstream
> > are xfailed in the CI tests. I'll upload the new version and close this
> > bug with the upload.
Unfortunately the autopkgtests for 0.9.9-1 still fail [0], and since
it's blocking the migration of hdf5 it makes the package unsuitable for
release justifying the RC severity [1].

The issue is not xfails in test-GDL.py, it's test-gdl [2]:

"
 =================================================
 4 Error(s) found
 =================================================
 test_call_external
 test_delvarrnew
 test_hdf5
 test_indgen
"

[0] https://ci.debian.net/packages/g/gnudatalanguage/unstable/amd64/
[1] https://release.debian.org/buster/rc_policy.txt
[2]
https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/g/gnudatalanguage/1418204/log.gz

Kind Regards,

Bas

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