[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#870060: [samtools/bcftools] Runtime tests are failing on several hardware architectures (#720)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi James,

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:49:34PM +0000, James Bonfield wrote:
> When I was doing the windows port a huge number of bcftools failures were down to variation in the last digit of a floating point number - ie rounding differences.   I haven't looked at this particular issue, but we really need a more robust comparison mechanism to determine equality.

The observed test failures would fit to this observation at least.  I fully agre that more robust floating point comparison should be the first means to takle this.