Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] octave-ltfat_2.2.0+dfsg-1_amd64.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2017-01-06 00:17]:

> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2017-01-04 17:41]:
>
> > Le lundi 02 janvier 2017 à 09:03 +0000, Debian FTP Masters a écrit :
> >
> > > Accepted:
> > >
> > > Source: octave-ltfat
> > > Version: 2.2.0+dfsg-1
> > > Distribution: unstable
> >
> > The latest version of octave-ltfat FTBFS on mips64el. It looks like 
> > the testsuite ran for too long without displaying anything.
> >
> > Possible fixes include:
> >
> > - have the problematic test display something every N minutes 
> > - ask for the removal of the mips64el binary in unstable
>
> Would it be acceptable to check the architecture in d/check.m and skip 
> the tests if we are on mips64el?

I went ahead and committed the change mentioned above.  This is a trivial 
way to avoid FTBFS on mips64el.  If it is inappropriate, of if we find a 
better way to cope with the problem, we can revert the change in the 
future.

Rafael