Bug#926180: scilab: FTBFS on all - baseline violation?

[Rebecca N. Palmer]

Given that the error is "Illegal instruction", and reproducibly happens 
on x86-bm-01 and not the other machines we've tried, could it be 
something assuming CPU features more recent than the amd64 baseline?

If so, it's not obvious where: scilab does contain some C/C++ code (as 
well as Java), but there aren't any asm() or __builtin_ia32* calls in 
it, or any -march options in the build log.  Maybe it's in a dependency, 
not scilab itself?

There is an open "illegal instruction crash in Xcos" bug upstream, which 
may or may not be related: 
https://bugzilla.scilab.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11003#c6

Alexis Murzeau wrote:
> will such bug-fix upstream release be accepted in
> buster, now that we are in full freeze ?

Generally not: Debian prefers not to fix minor bugs during freeze 
because this might accidentally create major ones.
https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html