[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#796731: freecontact: FTBFS on mips (test suite failure)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Wed, Sep  9, 2015 at 09:44:30 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> > Hi mips porters,
> > 
> > could anybody please find a more powerful machine to build the rdepends
> > libfreecontact-perl and python-freecontact.
> > 
> No, as I already said that is not acceptable.  Packages should be built
> on buildds.  Reliably.

I personally see two options to deal with this (as said before I do not
see any sense in simply skipping the test suite - why should we deliver
a package on an architecture where it can not even be tested?):

  1. Exclude mips explicitly in d/control
  2. Ask ftpmaster to remove the package for mips architecture

The latter would enable the package to migrate to testing and once there
might be more powerful autobuilders it will come back automatically.
Please let me know what you think.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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