Bug#754330: healpy FTBFS on arm64 and ppc64, test failure

peter green plugwash at p10link.net
Wed Jul 9 23:36:59 UTC 2014


Package: healpy
Version: 1.8.1-1
Severity: important
User: debian-arm at lists.debian.org
Usertags: arm64

Healpy failed to build on arm64 and ppc64 with the following error:

> ____________________ [doctest] healpy.pixelfunc.max_pixrad _____________________
> 1107     Returns
> 1108     -------
> 1109     rads: double
> 1110        angular distance (in radians)
> 1111 
> 1112     Examples
> 1113     --------
> 1114     >>> '%.15f' % max_pixrad(1)
> 1115     '0.841068670567930'
> 1116     >>> '%.15f' % max_pixrad(16)
> Expected:
>     '0.066014761432513'
> Got:
>     '0.066014761432514'
>   
I'm guessing this is a case of slightly different rounding behaviour on 
different architectures combined with a test that is overly strict but I 
don't know anything about this package so I can't say for sure.



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