Bug#917095: python3-pyfftw: alignment tests fail on several arches
Drew Parsons
dparsons at debian.org
Fri Jul 10 03:15:52 BST 2020
On 2020-07-10 02:55, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
...
>> This still fails, even on x32, which is an x86 architecture õÕ
>
> I’ve commented upstream. The funniest thing is that, when I run
> the test that fails inside the build chroot, manually, (just with
> more debugging output) it passes!
>
> https://github.com/pyFFTW/pyFFTW/issues/128#issuecomment-656290711
>
> I therefore propose to skip the problematic tests on most
> architectures.
>
> Another interesting difference is that the build has 2 failues
> whereas my local build has 12 so the binary build might be
> dependent on the system it was built on, which is… dangerous,
> and, for a binary distribution, obviously inappropriate.
It's tricky problem to resolve. Let's encourage upstream to take up a
guest account on our Debian test machines so he can probe directly.
In the mean time I can skip tests as a work-around, and see if problems
show up in actual usage.
Drew
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