[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#939473: Sextractor: improve tests (was: Bug#939048: transition: glibc)

[Ole Streicher]

Package: sextractor
Version: 2.19.5+dfsg-6


Hi Paul, Aurelien,

I maintain both packages (sextractor and iraf-fitsutil).

1st, quick answer for sextractor: You don't need to care; this is my
fault/problem: The test is home-made and directly compares string-wise
the result with a reference catalog, which fails due to minimal changes
in the numbers -- from a quick view, that should be neglilible. That
also happened in the past, and I solved it by updating the reference
(which is ofcourse not the smartest solution). If you have a good
general way to handle this, I am happy to apply this; otherwise I will
just read+compare the numbers with python3-numpy in future.

For iraf-fitsutil, I still have no glue what happens there. That is also
a bit painful to debug, since the package is mainly written in a domain
specific language (IRAF SPP; Aurelien may know it from work). So I am
afraid it may take a bit of time to analyze.

Best regards

Ole

On 04.09.19 22:47, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi maintainers of sextractor and iraf-fitsutil,
> 
> In bug 939048 we are discussing a transition slot for glibc 2.29. As
> part of the preparation we are checking autopkgtest results in unstable,
> when glibc 2.29 from experimental is installed. This e-mail is a heads
> up of failures in your packages. Can you please check that these are
> genuine? If so, please either let us know in this bug, or by filing a
> bug against your own package that blocks this bug.
> 
> On 04-09-2019 22:06, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Thanks for the info.
>>
>>> I'll check why there are so many "Test in progress" items. Most of them
>>> should be neutral I see.
>>  
>> Ok. I have checked the one marked as regression, and there are only two
>> if them that are real regressions in addition to postgresql-hll:
>> - iraf-fitsutil: this is a strange issue, I am able to reproduce it, but
>>   I haven't investigated more yet.
> 
> Log:
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/i/iraf-fitsutil/2885704/log.gz
> 
>> - sextractor: I am able to reproduce the issue, it seems to be related
>>   to a math precision change, but I haven't investigated more yet.
> 
> Log:
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/unstable/amd64/s/sextractor/2841528/log.gz
> 
> @aurelien, so, let's have the maintainers on board.
> 
> Paul
>