[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#947462: 1.10.2-3 still buggy on big-endian

John Marshall John.W.Marshall at glasgow.ac.uk
Wed Feb 19 08:15:14 GMT 2020


> upstream finally has a Big Endian fix! (and probably it never worked before!) 
> https://github.com/samtools/htslib/pull/1023

There is no "probably": reading/writing BCF files did not work correctly before, still does not work with the patch that you have applied, and this was not tested by the test suite until February 17th.

The 1.10.2 test suite currently passes with the patch that you have applied because the test suite is known to be incomplete. If there are any users on s390x, they would be well served by updating debian/patches/big-endian to reflect PR #1023's final code patches as they were merged upstream, rather than the buggy incomplete version you currently have.

    John


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