Re: Accepted octave-signal 1.4.4-1 (source) into experimental

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2023-05-31 22:52]:

> Le lundi 22 mai 2023 à 07:03 +0000, Debian FTP Masters a écrit :
> > Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 03:05:20 -0300
> > Source: octave-signal
> > Architecture: source
> > Version: 1.4.4-1
> > Distribution: experimental
>
> Note that it failed to build on many architectures.

Some unit tests for firpm are failing on those architectures. The 
function firpm has been introduced in version 1.4.4. It is implemented in 
file src/firpm.cc, which calls the C file src/mmfir.c. This is a new 
implementation of McClellan-Parks-Rabiner method for designing FIR 
filters using the minimax technique. It is intended to replace the remez 
function, which is also on the signal package.

These files were proposed by Rob Sykes back in 2014 and have only been 
integrated into the signal package in 2023 (see [1]). I would guess that 
the author of the files, as well as the maintainers of the signal 
package, did not test the new code on the problematic architectures.

I do not have time to debug this issue.

Any ideas on how to proceed ?

Best,

Rafael

[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8535