[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#908662: r-cran-etm: autopkgtest regression: saved results mismatch

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

it is definitely architecture dependand.  I think the solution would be
to do a comparison tollerating this micro-diffs.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:35:02PM +0200, Arthur Allignol wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Totally forgot about it...
> 
> If I read the diff well, there is differences in the 19th decimal (e.g., 1.337e-19 vs 1.032e-19). Could these kind of rounding error be platform specific? The saved results were obtained on a Mac. I could find some time to fire up a VM and see but I would tend to ignore the problem. 
> 
> Should I take further actions?
> 
> Thanks for your work! and best,
> Arthur
> 
> 
> > On 12. Sep 2018, at 14:15, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Arthur,
> > 
> > there was a bug report filed against the Debian packaged version of etm.
> > It seems the saved results are not matching the result of the test.
> > 
> > Could you please comment on this - may be we are doing something wrong?
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >       Andreas.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:26:13PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> >> Source: r-cran-etm
> >> Version: 1.0.4-2
> >> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> >> Usertags: regression
> >> 
> >> Hi R Package Team
> >> 
> >> Now that #903672 has been resolved, we can see that r-cran-etm fails its
> >> autopkgtest [1] with the following errors:
> >> 
> >> --- tests.etm.Rout.save_	2018-09-10 10:04:21.100595425 +0000
> >> +++ tests.etm.Rout_	2018-09-10 10:04:21.104595447 +0000
> >> @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
> >> 116  0.9990 116.0 4.764e-07 0.99767 1.0000      1       0
> >> 124  0.9990 124.0 4.764e-07 0.99767 1.0000      2       0
> >> 164  0.9990 164.0 4.764e-07 0.99767 1.0000      0       0
> >> -183  1.0000 183.0 1.337e-19 1.00000 1.0000      1       1
> >> +183  1.0000 183.0 1.032e-19 1.00000 1.0000      1       1
> >>> 
> >>> ## gonna play a bit with the state names
> >>> dd <- sir.cont
> >> @@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
> >>  0.90344   35 1.193e-04 0.88204 0.92484     54       4
> >>  0.96816   54 4.374e-05 0.95520 0.98113     15       2
> >>  0.98894   77 1.668e-05 0.98094 0.99695      5       0
> >> - 1.00000  460 1.016e-20 1.00000 1.00000      1       1
> >> + 1.00000  460 2.253e-19 1.00000 1.00000      1       1
> >> 
> >> Transition 1 1
> >>       P time      var   lower   upper n.risk n.event
> >> autopkgtest [10:04:21]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
> >> autopkgtest [10:04:21]: test run-unit-test:  - - - - - - - - - - results - -
> >> - - - - - - - -
> >> run-unit-test        FAIL non-zero exit status 1
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Graham
> >> 
> >> 
> >> [1] https://ci.debian.net/packages/r/r-cran-etm/unstable/amd64/
> > 
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> 
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