Bug#877419: pandas: some I/O tests (hdf5, Stata) fail on non-x86

[Helge Deller]

On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 13:29:44 +0000 "Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer at zoho.com> wrote:
> Re-enabling these tests found that this bug (which is probably actually
> multiple bugs) _does_ still exist, on big-endian systems and _possibly_
> others.
>
> pandas now (0.25.3+dfsg-7) warns the user when these are used on any
> non-x86 system.

Please note, that for the HPPA debian buildds, pandas is now
built on x86 machines which run qemu-user to emulate the hppa arch.
Since then, all builds for pandas now succeed:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=pandas&arch=hppa
pasta, paq, paco, pad and pacific are all such x86 machines.
panama, sap, atlas, mx3210, physik and phantom are physical hppa machines.

I haven't looked into the real issues on native machines, but this
sounds strange and looks like as if results are compared against
little endian output (or similiar).

Anyway, I'm happy to test any patches or switch the hppa build servers
to build on physical machines as well again.

Helge