Bug#820797: Does anybody care about clhep (and other software from CERN)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Lifeng,

it would be great if you at least spent one minute for a short notice
whether you keep on working or whether you are MIA.

Thanks

    Andreas.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:55:22AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> tags 820797 patch
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've commited a patch for bug #820797 to Git which removes the non-free
> code (not yet adding the missing licenses but this should be cheap).
> 
> I'm honestly wondering whether somebody cares about clhep and related
> software in Debian Science and how much it is worth spending time on
> fixing the most urgent issues.
> 
> I was not able to upload the patch since the test suite fails:
> 
> ...
> FAIL: testStaticStreamSave
> ==========================
> 
> 
> Input stream mispositioned or
> JamesRandom state description missing or
> wrong engine type found.
> Mismatch when expecting to read static state of a RandGauss distribution
> Name found was 
> istream is left in the badbit state
> 
> Input stream mispositioned or
> JamesRandom state description missing or
> wrong engine type found.
> Mismatch when expecting to read static state of a RandGauss distribution
> Name found was 
> istream is left in the badbit state
> ???? restoreFullState failed for RandGauss
> One or more problems detected: stat = 8192
> FAIL testStaticStreamSave (exit status: 255)
> 
> ============================================================================
> Testsuite summary for CLHEP Random 2.1.3.1
> ============================================================================
> # TOTAL: 13
> # PASS:  11
> # SKIP:  0
> # XFAIL: 0
> # FAIL:  2
> # XPASS: 0
> # ERROR: 0
> ============================================================================
> See test/test-suite.log
> Please report to http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/clhep/
> ============================================================================
> Makefile:874: recipe for target 'test-suite.log' failed
> make[5]: *** [test-suite.log] Error 1
> make[5]: Leaving directory '/build/clhep-2.1.3.1+dfsg/Random/test'
> Makefile:980: recipe for target 'check-TESTS' failed
> make[4]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory '/build/clhep-2.1.3.1+dfsg/Random/test'
> Makefile:1137: recipe for target 'check-am' failed
> make[3]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/clhep-2.1.3.1+dfsg/Random/test'
> Makefile:454: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> make[2]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/clhep-2.1.3.1+dfsg/Random'
> Makefile:464: recipe for target 'check-recursive' failed
> make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/clhep-2.1.3.1+dfsg'
> dh_auto_test: make -j4 check VERBOSE=1 returned exit code 2
> ...
> 
> 
> So if somebody wants to safe this for Stretch its highly urgent now ...
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
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> 
> 

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