[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#969608: makeblastdb 2.10.x on 32-bit architectures

[Étienne Mollier]

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Greetings,

Étienne Mollier, on 2020-09-08 21:10:18 +0200:
> Aaron M. Ucko, on 2020-09-07 21:55:45 -0400:
> > Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier at mailoo.org> writes:
> > > Thanks for your work on this topic.  I attempted to remove the
> > > patches to address #960756 in Biopython.  While the problem is
> > > fixed on i386 without having to fall back on version 4, I hit a
> > > very similar issue on amd64 this time.
> > 
> > Oops, I accidentally introduced a regression on 64-bit architectures;
> > fixed in -3 just now.  (An intended formal clarification misfired.)
> 
> No problem, I have done my fair share of oopses here and there,
> that could happen to anybody.  I confirm I haven't seen the bug
> reappear on amd64 or i386 with the new version.  The patch for
> working the test around could now be safely dropped.
> 
> > Thank you very much for pointing it out!
> 
> You're most welcome, glad you could solve it so quickly!
> 
> Have a nice day,  :)

While running the testsuite of the python-biopython package
impending update, I noticed the autopkgtest set back to do the
run with `makeblastdb -version 5` failed in arm64, so the
regression looks still there in version 2.10.0-3, at least on
arm64 architecture.

This issue doesn't seem caught by the test suite of ncbi-blast+,
so it might be worth adding this test.  In the meanwhile, I
wrapped up a small patch for the python-biopython test suite to
fall back to version 4 on a selection of architectures.

Thanks,
-- 
Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier at mailoo.org>
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