[Debichem-devel] Bug#953630: Bug#953630: openbabel autopkg tests fail on non-amd64 architectures

[Andrius Merkys]

Hello,

IMO it is high time to revisit this issue.

On 2020-03-11 14:33, Matthias Klose wrote:
> openbabel autopkg tests areq quiet interesting. Working around the timeout on
> arm64 hides the fact that two other tests fail on every non-amd64 architecture.

I agree that the way the autopkgtest is written hides some of the
failures. Your patch does indeed un-hide them.

> Also looking at the test output, you see that one test succeeds despites the
> python3 binary segfaulting.

Test failures are ignored for openbabel now (pinging Michael who did
that [1]). If we really aim at catching all test failures, I guess we
should not ignore them. However, this may result in openbabel being RMed
from non-amd64 architectures and I got the impression that the upstream
may not have enough resources to debug on non-amd64 architectures [2].

[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/openbabel/-/commit/eb17fde215d2ec6d3b37f365ff42250cde3700e7
[2]
https://github.com/openbabel/openbabel/issues/2417#issuecomment-942098541

Best,
Andrius