Sponsoring of packages for the next stable release

[Stephen Sinclair]

Dear Anton,

Just an update on siconos, I used a qemu emulator to run Debian arm64
on my laptop using the OpenStack image as a basis.  It took quite a
while to build (2 days), and the first attempt of course failed due to
time outs, but then I disabled timeouts and the package built and
tested, and passed autopkgtest.  I am pleasantly surprised.

Therefore, I have just pushed another change to disable
"ConvexQP_test_collection" which is also a lengthy test, and feel
confident that the build should pass on real arm64 hardware.  I have
marked it as version 4.3.1+dfsg-2 on salsa master.

regards,
Steve

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:43 PM Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have disabled the test on salsa, but I am not sure the software will
> succeed on arm64.  Actually I am quite curious, as my attempts to
> compile on my Raspberry Pi did not get as far as running that test.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 6:39 PM Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > You are welcome!
> >
> > There is a build problem on arm64 "96 - ContactTest (Timeout)". Please
> > fix or disable this
> > only test. I have restarted the build but it did not succeed.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Anton
> >
> > Am So., 24. Jan. 2021 um 17:54 Uhr schrieb Stephen Sinclair
> > <radarsat1 at gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Great, thank you Anton, I don't think I would have figured that out!  This should be extremely helpful for future maintenance.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Steve