Bug#873008: hfst FTBFS on big endian: FAIL: test

Thu Sep 7 06:44:22 UTC 2017

On 7 September 2017 at 03:15, Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:

> Why do the tests for hfst need to be disabled?
>
> I think it would be better to keep them enabled so that we can ensure
> that hfst works correctly. Broken binaries are worse than FTBFS. You
> can ask for removal of the existing binaries from the architectures
> where the FTBFS happens by using `reportbug ftp.debian.org`.

The binaries are not broken, though. It's one out of a hundred tests that
fails.

It's more that some of the file formats are not endian-neutral (e.g.
OpenFST). For the purpose of working with HFST locally and exchanging the
neutral files, it works fine.

-- Tino Didriksen
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