Re: Bug#1050432: rpy2: FTBFS on mips64el

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Hi all,

As the test failures for complex valued variables appeared to be systemic on
the 'mips64el' platform, I buckled down, taught myself some Python ==:-) and
conditioned the number of failing tests away via

  @pytest.mark.skipif(platform.machine() == 'mips64' and sys.byteorder == 'little',
                      reason="Complex tests fails for 'mips64el'.")

Maybe the porters team can shed some light on why we needed it, and if this
worked (the autobuilders will tell us soon enough) I can pass the patch on to
Laurent for a possible inclusion upstream.

Cheers,  Dirk

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