[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1069488: parsinsert: FTBFS on armhf: make[1]: *** [debian/rules:30: override_dh_auto_test] Error 1

[Étienne Mollier]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

Hi,

parsinsert is making a lot of assumptions on certain compiler
optimisation behaviors, which have evolved in time.  This has
caused an increasing number of ftbfs bugs affecting a range of
CPU architectures, for which the resolution consisted in
dropping optimization levels, e.g. #964082.

I could reproduce the present bug on armhf.  This architecture
was already built with -O1 optimisation, so I attempted a drop
to -O0 which resolved the segmentation fault, but caused other
computation errors anyway.  parsinsert has not seen any newer
upstream version for about twelve years, so I think we don't
have much options but lookup on which CPU architectures build is
broken, request for removal on such targets, then reduce the bug
severity, and move on.

At least the package still seems to operate properly on amd64,
so we can still get away without a removal of the package.

Have a nice day,  :)
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