[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#762647: Bug#762647: samtools: FTBFS: test suite errors

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:20:15PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko a écrit :
> 
> The builds of samtools for arm64 and ppc64el both failed because
> the first samtools faidx test hit the autobuilders' activity timeout.
> Given that these timeouts are generous (300 minutes for arm64, 150 for
> ppc64el), I suspect the test managed to hang on those systems.
> 
> Meanwhile, the other builds attempted so far all encountered
> unexpected test failures -- 2 on kfreebsd-amd64, and 95 each on i386,
> kfreebsd-i386, and mipsel.

Hi Aaron,

regarding the test failures on the ‘stats’ command (2 unit failures), I
reported the issue upstream and will implement a workaround if necessary.

    https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/300

The other failures and timeouts are probably symptoms of non-portability
outside amd64.  Some porters have contacted upstream on endianness issues, but
I do not know if the problem is likely to be solved in the short term.

    https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/268

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan