[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1010164: fails autopkgtest against Octave 7

[Uecker, Martin]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 17:23:25 +0200 =?utf-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien_Villemot?= <sebastien at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: octave-bart
> Version: 0.7.00-2
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> Control: block 1009865 by -1
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> The autopkgtest for octave-bart fails against octave 7.1.0-2 recently uploaded
> to unstable. See:
> https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/b/bart/21135046/log.gz
> 
> The problem comes from a message that is printed to stderr:
> 
>   error: ignoring const execution_exception& while preparing to exit
> 
> This message only appears when running the autopkgtest in a dedicated chroot as
> done on the DebCI infrastructure. I wasn’t able to reproduce it in other
> contexts, and I could not figure out what causes it.
> 
> Since this message is essentially harmless, and given that the test passes
> otherwise, I would suggest to simply add the “allow-stderr” keyword to
> “Restrictions” in the octave-integration stanza of debian/tests/control.

I am happy to do this if this is necessary, but isn't this
obviously caused by a bug in octave?

Martin