Bug#953235: vtkplotter: autopkgtest arm64 failure: No module named 'vtkIOFFMPEGPython'

[Paul Gevers]

Dear Adrian,

On 07-05-2020 10:07, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This is a toolchain problem affecting many packages:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25051

Do you have any rough estimate how many? Is there any way to predict
which packages are effected, or to detect which packages are effected?

> There is nothing a binary-all python module can do to fix
> architecture-specific toolchain bugs.

Ack.

> Is there a non-manual way to express that the autopkgtest must not run 
> on arm64 and powerpc64el?

There is currently not even a manual way except for marking the test as
skippable and exitting with error code 77 on unsupported architectures.
Mind you, I don't think toolchain issues should be marked at the package
level (but maybe you didn't mean that). If we can detect this failure
mode (and similar ones in the future) we can of course generate hints
based on this heuristics and have the failures ignored until the
toolchain issues are fixed.

Paul

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