Re: htsjdk

[Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr>]

On 01/05/2016 11:29 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Olivier,
>
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Olivier Sallou wrote:
>> I updated (locally) ngs-sdk to create Java bindings and get it created.
>>
>> I tried to use it with htsjdk for validation, but most of tests fail
>> (though maybe not related to the Java lib itself).
>> It ran 22704 tests, but 229 tests fail. It gonna be hard to debug....
> In some packages (recently python-cogent) I decided to exclude parts of
> the test suite.  This at least documents what tests are failing and puts
> this on a todo list for later inspection.  My guess is that if we do not
> provide the Debian packages people will install the software manually
> without running the tests and might have the very same problems as in
> the package without noticing.  Creating a bug report in addition with
> something like "Please fix problems if full test suite is activated"
> would raise the awareness of the issues which otherwise simply stay
> hidden.
>
> What do you think?
well, without understanding test failure it is an issue as package may
not be functional....
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>

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