[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#735596: snp-sites: FTBFS: FAIL: run-all-tests

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Source: snp-sites
Version: 1.3-1
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

The builds of snp-sites for several architectures (most 32-bit ones,
plus s390x) failed:

  FAIL: run-all-tests
  make[5]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/src'
  make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  make[5]: Leaving directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/src'
  ============================================================================
  Testsuite summary for snp-sites 1
  ============================================================================
  # TOTAL: 1
  # PASS:  0
  # SKIP:  0
  # XFAIL: 0
  # FAIL:  1
  # XPASS: 0
  # ERROR: 0
  ============================================================================
  See src/test-suite.log

I was able to reproduce the problem on i386, and found that the
underlying error (which would have been helpful to print
automatically) was

  ../tests/check-snp-sites.c:167:F:alignment_file:valid_initial_reference_sequence:0: Assertion 'strcmp(actual_reference_sequence,expected_reference_sequence) == 0' failed

Running the program under a debugger, with CK_FORK=no in the
environment, revealed trailing garbage in actual_reference_sequence;
initializing the variable to an empty string (automatically NUL-padded
to the array's length) cleared the error up.

Could you please take care of it?

Thanks!