[Debian-med-packaging] Samtools fails to build on several architectures [noreply at buildd.debian.org: failed i386 build of samtools 1.0-1]

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:33:53AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> the build log below says:
> 
> Number of tests:
>     total            .. 375
>     passed           .. 246
>     failed           .. 95
>     expected failure .. 34
>     unexpected pass  .. 0
> 
> 
> I have (mis)used blends.debian.net which is some i386 which I control and
> found in pbuilder:
> 
> Number of tests:
>     total            .. 375
>     passed           .. 339
>     failed           .. 2
>     expected failure .. 34
>     unexpected pass  .. 0
> 
> I conclude that there are probably some issues (2 failures) but the
> other ones are probably caused by the schroot issue Charles reported
> before uploading which is pretty strange.  For the moment I try to
> concentrate on the two "real failures".  I have no time right now and
> thus I'd like to invite anybody who might be able to build samtools on
> i386 to try and check what might be behind these two failures.

Hi Andreas,

I propose to solve the issue by implementing autopkgtest files to run the
upstream regression suite (which is easy as it is contained in the samtoos-test
package), and to disable these tests at build time.

What do you think about this ?

-- 
Charles