[Python-modules-team] Bug#695955: Bug#695955: fail upon failures in loops + do not ignore tests failures

[Sandro Tosi]

Hello,
thanks for your work to make numpy a better package :)

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko
<debian at onerussian.com> wrote:
> Actually here are two patches (ready to be committed to SVN happen the
> maintainer approves)
>
> - one assures that all for loops are secured with set -e, so if any
> command fails, the loop fails (do not remember who pointed me to this drawback
> in my packages originally, thanks again ;) )

that makes sense, applied (in my local checkout, will commit once the
test build has finished).

> - tests failures are not ignored

they are * temporarily* ignored.

>   imho it is much better to submit packages with only known to fail tests
>   disabled/excluded or

> even better resolved

that's currently what's being done, cfr
https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/created_by/sandrotosi?page=1&sort=updated&state=open
+ closed.

> yes -- currently it would lead to FTBFS since all (or nearly all -- that
> is the point, impossible to figure out besides going through all of them 1 by
> 1) architectures show some kind of test failure or a crash:

yes, I know, and as you probably know too, this patch won't be
accepted until all those tests are ironed out.

Regards,

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