Bug#816101: petsc: FTBFS on mipsel - try rebuild again

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

[Adding debian-wb-team back to Cc]

On 13/03/16 17:56, Drew Parsons wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 17:35 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 13/03/16 16:34, Drew Parsons wrote:
>>>
>>> Source: petsc
>>> Followup-For: Bug #816101
>>>
>>> The petsc build failure on mipsel appears to be a transient problem
>>> on
>>> the build machine. Please try the mipsel build again.
>> Why? It has failed twice already.
>
> What would make mipsel different to other architectures or from the
> earlier successful mipsel build?  It's the same petsc.

petsc may be at the same version, but the environment has changed. It may be a 
bug in another package (e.g. an rdep) or a bug in petsc that was latent until now.

>> Have you checked if it builds fine on a porterbox?
>
> I tried but sbuild wouldn't work inside the schroot environment on
> etler.

Did you read the MOTD? See https://dsa.debian.org/doc/schroot/

Anyway given the build queue is currently empty on mipsel, I've given it back. 
Let's see if the problem is fixed now...

Emilio