[Python-modules-team] Bug#800392: Bug#800392: Bug#800392: Bug#800392: python-numpy: FTBFS on powerpc due to test failure

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday, September 30, 2015 01:22:51 AM Julian Taylor wrote:
> On 30.09.2015 01:14, Julian Taylor wrote:
> > On 30.09.2015 01:01, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Julian Taylor
> >> 
> >> Is there an elegant way to instruct numpy testsuite to just ignore
> >> errors on powerpc? I would really love to keep the test failures as
> >> blocking on all Debian archs. I cant think of any smart way to keep
> >> the 'set -e' for all archs except powerpc
> >> 
> >> on way would be to just skip that test (in the last failure it was
> >> always test_multiarray.TestClip.test_basic) but of course that doesnt
> >> guarantee that other tests might fail after that (and we dont know
> >> now) or that other test starts failing (because of the broken malloc
> >> acting up).
> > 
> > it would probably be best to disable the assert in
> > lowlevel_strided_loops.c.src on powerpc depending cpp macros, that way
> > it will also continue to work when users would want to use python-dbg on
> > ppc if softfaulting is enabled.
> 
> attached a patch

Without testing, that seems reasonable.  Do you want someone to sponsor an 
upload for you or are you waiting for feedback from Sandro?  If the former, 
please turn this into a debdiff or put it in DPMT svn with changelog, etc and I 
can probably sponsor tomorrow if no one else does.

Scott K