[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#881149: htslib FTBFS: test failures on i386

[Graham Inggs]

On 8 November 2017 at 17:10, Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> The relevant change is gcc 6 -> 7.

Thanks.  I've just checked, and the last successful i386 build in
Ubuntu was on 2017-08-04 against gcc 6.

> With multiarch allowing installation of amd64 packages even on an i386
> installation, I'm wondering whether we would lose anything by just doing
> an RM of htslib and rdeps on i386 - that would be the cleanest solution.

I'm not against removal of htslib and rdeps on i386.

In this case though, test_vcf_sweep uses the output from test_vcf_api,
so it is only really 1 out of 85 tests that fails.  I've verified that
test_vcf_sweep works on i386 with test-vcf-api.bcf generated on amd64.
I have an i386 VM set up and will have a look when I have some time.
The fix might be trivial.

BTW, are you sure it is possible to install amd64 packages on i386?  I
know i386 on amd64 is possible, but I've never heard this before.