Bug#875465: sagemath: FTBFS on arm64: partitions doctests fail

[Ximin Luo]

Control: severity -1 important

The previous build success was an accident, I raised the ignore-test-failures threshold too high. These combinat tests that you mention, also failed in the "successful build". Further, that build did not get a chance to migrate to Debian testing, so it can effectively be disregarded for Debian release purposes.

Upstream are spending a minor amount of effort on fixing these issues but until this is complete, I think it's best to avoid shipping arm64 sagemath on Debian. Downgrading the severity for now.

(FWIW ppc64el seems to be fine and has the same number of test failures as amd64.)

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On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 11:08:41 -0400 "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: sagemath
> Version: 8.0-7
> Severity: serious
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> The latest arm64 build of sagemath encountered errors in two
> sage.combinat.partitions.* doctests, as detailed at
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=sagemath&arch=arm64&ver=8.0-7&stamp=1505101830&raw=0
> 
>   2 items had failures:
>     10 of  26 in sage.combinat.partitions.number_of_partitions
>      1 of   3 in sage.combinat.partitions.run_tests
>       [35 tests, 11 failures, 8.05 s]
> 
> Could you please take a look?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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