[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#923457: test_likelihood_nh (Failed)

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:56:49AM +0100, Julien Y. Dutheil wrote:
> Dear Andreas,
> 
> Ok, I have committed a patch removing the test. But just realized I did not
> update the changelog... should that now be version 2.4.1-3?

Thanks, I'll fix the changelog.  Andreas.
 
> Cheers,
> 
> Julien.
> 
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:03 AM Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 09:53:10AM +0100, Julien Y. Dutheil wrote:
> > > This all boils down to the fact that this unit test is badly designed: it
> > > basically maximizes a function from initial random values. I some
> > > particular combinations of initial values though, the convergence may
> > fail
> > > or take too much time. I will redesign the test, but do not have time at
> > > the moment. Would it be possible to just deactivate that test for now?
> >
> > Sure.  IMHO that's the most straightforward way to deal with this issue.
> > Since I expect you to be more familiar with the tests I simply assumed
> > that you find a more elegant way to deactivate the test than I. ;-)
> >
> > > In the meantime I also found more symbols errors in libbpp-popgen and I
> > > fixed that. I also propagated your modification from bpp-phyl to bpp-seq
> > > and bpp-popgen.
> >
> > I've seen the commits.  Thanks for this.  I'll upload in case there will
> > be more bugs reported.  In Freeze we touch only packages with RC bugs.
> >
> > > On a side note: how can I change my email address (the one that appears
> > in
> > > the changelog file) ? That one is now deprecated.
> >
> > It should be changed in debian/control in the Uploaders field as well.
> > Both strings need to match each other.
> >
> > Thanks for your contribution
> >
> >       Andreas.
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
> 
> 
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