Bug#1066974: freecad: package got copletely removed from Debian testing

[Kurt Kremitzki]

The current status of this:

- the Path workbench has a test which checks string equality on generated vs expected G-code for an operation. On the i386 arch only, the produced G-code is not what is expected, although it is consistent. In a G-code viewer, what is produced is visually identical, just with an increased number of arcs of shorter length. I've patched this test with a special-case check to use a different "expected" string id the arch is i386, and this works, even if not elegant; the further yak-shaving needed has been discussed with upstream.

- on armel, it seems FEM workbench tests are failing, but it isn't enough to e.g. disable that workbench, because then the failures just pop up elsewhere. I've repeated this "disable test, different test segfaults elsewhere" pattern about 5 times. It seems like, for some reason, the armel builds are no longer viable. It isn't ideal, but FreeCAD is probably not getting much use on the arch, so it may be that it ought to be removed from the architecture.

I would appreciate some feedback on these 2 items. I could do an upload with a patch for the Path test and request armel removal if nobody has any better suggestions or reservations about this approach.

Thanks,
Kurt
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