[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#927313: parsinsert: probably broken on armhf, failing autopkgtests in Ubuntu

[Steve Langasek]

Package: parsinsert
Version: 1.04-4
Severity: important
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu disco

Dear maintainers,

The parsinsert package passed its autopkgtests in Ubuntu on armhf as of
1.04-3; but with the 1.04-4 update, the tests now fail:

[...]
Rank Matches:
                     _________Precision________    __________Recall__________
            Domain:      957      938 ( 98.01%)          938      957 ( 98.01%)
            Phylum:      957       83 (  8.67%)           83      957 (  8.67%)
             Class:      957       83 (  8.67%)           83      957 (  8.67%)
             Order:      915        0 (  0.00%)            0      915 (  0.00%)
            Family:      876        0 (  0.00%)            0      876 (  0.00%)
             Genus:      706        0 (  0.00%)            0      706 (  0.00%)
           Species:       53        0 (  0.00%)            0       53 (  0.00%)
Insert Time = 82, 42014 per hour
Process Completed: 102 sec
incorrect result
autopkgtest [23:16:43]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]
autopkgtest [23:16:46]: test run-unit-test:  - - - - - - - - - - results - - - - - - - - - -
run-unit-test        FAIL non-zero exit status 1
[...]

  (https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-disco/disco/armhf/p/parsinsert/20190206_231724_739fb@/log.gz)

Investigation suggests this is a regression caused by toolchain changes that
have resulted in a broken armhf binary build in 1.04-4: there are clearly no
changes to the testsuite between -3 and -4, the -3 binary still passes the
testsuite with current libraries, and a no-change rebuild of -3 fails the
same way.

Since Debian does not run autopkgtests on !amd64, I would strongly recommend
running these tests at build time as well, to avoid shipping broken binaries
on other architectures.

Note that these tests also fail on arm64, i386, and ppc64el in Ubuntu,
suggestings the packages are also broken there, but none of these are
regressions.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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