[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#969804: Bug#969804: bart: autopkgtest should be marked superficial

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Martin,

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 01:15:47PM +0000, Uecker, Martin wrote:
> > The severity on this bug can be downgraded, however the FTBFS on s390x
> > remains a release critical bug, since s390x is a release architecture.
> > 
> > Either the FTBFS gets fixed, or removal of the s390x binaries can be requested.
> 
> I wonder whether we should simply turn off all tests on
> non-x86-64 architectures.
> 
> These usually turn up issues with the toolchain which
> then cause additional work for me although the bug is
> elsewhere.

I'm not sure whether this is a good idea in general.  If
we can be sure that for s390x there is an issue with the
tool chain I could imagine something like:

  if build on s390x
      run_test || true # FIXME: explanation why we ignore test
  else
      run_test

I do not think that ignoring the tests on all architectures
is a good idea.

Kind regards

   Andreas.

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