eigen3_3.1.2-1~exp3_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into experimental

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre at debian.org
Sun Nov 18 22:44:54 UTC 2012


On 18/11/2012 22:01, Anton Gladky wrote:
> 2012/11/18 Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>:
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>> Hi,
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>> On 18/11/2012 21:47, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
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>>> Accepted:
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>>> * [dd8fdd8] Disable autotests. They are useless during build-time.
>> Useless, why ? :)
> 
> Well, there are usually  a lot of errors during these autotests. So we
> need to override them all the time not to break the building. I used these
> autotests to report possible bugs to upstream. But most of "errors" are
> platform-dependent, so the upstream is not able to fix them and not all
> of "errors" are really errors.
OK. Upstream should relax its tests ....

> Some architectures are weak, so autotests on them were disabled not to
> burn them out.
> 
> From another point of view eigen3 is a header-only "library", so it
> should definitely be in "Architecture: all" section.
> 
> If you think, I should return those autotests back, I will consider that.
Could it be interesting to activate them on i386 and amd64 only ?

Thanks
S





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