[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#970875: Bug#970875: mash: inconsistent results on 32 vs 64 bits architectures

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 01:35:46PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> Sascha Steinbiss, on 2021-02-20 12:57:25 +0100:
> > It looks like, in general, results are known to be different between
> > 64bit and 32bit archs. I've looked at reported issues upstream and
> > found: https://github.com/marbl/Mash/issues/109
> > 
> > So I don't think this is necessarily a bug in Debian, we even address it
> > in https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mash/-/blob/master/debian/
> > 
> > Should we tag this 'upstream'?
> 
> Ah, good finding!  Yes, I believe it would make sense to tag it
> upstream.

Probably.  However, what about providing it for 64bit architectures
only?  I mean the practical relevance for 32 bit architectures is
very limited and I consider it burned developer time if we care
for something where we know it provides different results than
expected and is not used anyway.

>  My main concern was that the inconsistency in results
> was seemingly visible on at least one other package.  The
> difference was enough to zero all out in the mash related
> kleborate test, but I probably should double check it's test
> suite to make sure the bug is attributed adequately.

If you are really sure you want to spent time on it anyway that's
fine for sure.

Kind regards

     Andreas.


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