Bug#1039917: [Debichem-devel] Bug#1039917: gemmi breaks finalcif autopkgtest: causes autopkgtest timeout

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi,

On 2023-06-29 17:06, Paul Gevers wrote:
> With a recent upload of gemmi the autopkgtest of finalcif fails in 
> testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of gemmi 
> from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In 
> tabular form:
> 
>                         pass            fail
> gemmi                  from testing    0.6.2+ds-2
> finalcif               from testing    113+dfsg-2
> all others             from testing    from testing
> 
> I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. After the 
> fifth test, there's no output until autopkgtest aborts after 2:47 hours. 
> Normally the test takes 2 to 3 minutes.
> 
> Currently this regression is blocking the migration of gemmi to testing 
> [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report against 
> both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the 
> bug to the right package?

I have just updated finalcif to its new upstream release. This should 
restore finalcif's compatibility with gemmi. Should finalcif's 
autopkgtests pass, I will close this bug.

> [1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=gemmi

Andrius