Bug#867987: h5py: FTBFS on sparc64 due to unaliged accesses in test suite

[Ghislain Vaillant]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:18:53 +0100 James Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: h5py
> Version: 2.7.0-1
> Tags: upstream patch
> Forwarded: https://github.com/h5py/h5py/pull/904
> User: debian-sparc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: sparc64
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-sparc at lists.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> Currently h5py FTBFS on sparc64 (and has done for as long as sparc64 has
> been building packages without nocheck), as the test suite crashes with
> SIGBUS due to unaligned memory accesses. I have submitted a fix upstream
> at the above URL; please include the patch in the Debian package.
> 
> Regards,
> James

It looks like upstream is planning to make a new release soon, so I'll
probably wait for it. Thanks for working on this, James.

Cheers,
Ghis