Failures in test suite of FastML
Hi,
I recently uploaded fastml[1] to new which our users are specifically
interested in because of gubbins[2] (both upstream in CC). Thanks to
the upstream authors of FastML it was changed to GPL-2+ and thus I
uploaded to the new queue.
However, I needed to switch of the unit tests to successfully build the
package since a few tests failed which I would like to discuss here to
hopefully solve these issues while the package is sitting in new.
The patch
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/fastml.git/tree/debian/patches/skip_failing_tests.patch
contains all exclusions from the test suite and as a comment the
according errors. I'm specifically concerned about the bootstrap_test
which seems to be a real failure.
I guess computeNJtreeJCmodel is a syntax error in the testing code -
any help from a C++ programmer would be welcome to solve this.
All other errors are kind of rounding errors which might (or might not)
be originated from running the test suite on a different architecture
and comparing with results which are similar but do not really fit. At
least my naive non-biologists view on these differences let me draw
this conclusion - please correct me if I'm wrong.
Any comments from upstream or here from this list are welcome.
Kind regards
Andreas.
PS: Haim, I'd recommend applying all other patches to your upstream
code. The header has comments about what problem is solved by
the patch.
[1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#fastml
[2] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#gubbins
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