Bug#850699: h5py: FTBFS [mips, ppc64el, s390x]: test failures

[Ghislain Antony Vaillant]

Source: h5py
Version: 2.7.0~rc2-1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Usertags: mips-port ppc64el

The new release of h5py fails to build on several architectures
including some major ones (mips, ppc64el and s390x). For each
architecture, the build fails at the testing stage [1-3].

[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=h5py&arch=mips&ver=2.7.0~rc2-1&stamp=1483741720
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=h5py&arch=ppc64el&ver=2.7.0~rc2-1&stamp=1483739258
[3] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=h5py&arch=s390x&ver=2.7.0~rc2-1&stamp=1483739226

Ghis


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)