[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#806675: hmmer: nhmmer fails with fatal exception on armhf

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Andreas,

> would you mind contacting upstream or arm porters about this since you
> seem to have done a quite detailed research on the issue ?

Sure, I will contact both and see if they know more.

Best,
Sascha

> 
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:20:54PM +0000, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
>> Source: hmmer
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> while reviewing the reproducible builds output for the barrnap package,
>> which depends on nhmmer, I noticed that a nhmmer problem seems to break
>> barrnap's post-build test run [1]. 
>> I'm suspecting this is platform related as it has never occured before
>> until the reproducibility builds started including ARM as a target platform [2].
>> 
>> I checked the unit test output for the hmmer armhf build [3] and some of the
>> tests at the end seem to crash or fail as well. This is also the case for the
>> other ARM platforms, powerpc and mips, but not for i386.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Sascha
>> 
>> [1] https://reproducible.debian.net/rb-pkg/unstable/armhf/barrnap.html
>> [2] https://reproducible.debian.net/history/barrnap.html
>> [3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=hmmer&arch=armhf&ver=3.1b2-1&stamp=1436134926
>> 
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