On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 09:59:25PM +0200, Oliver Heimlich wrote:
Am 3. Oktober 2017 18:06:37 MESZ schrieb Julien Bect <julien.bect@centralesupelec.fr>:
octave-stk has been marked for autoremoval from testing because of the
following test failure on unstable/i386:
...
Both functions (sqp, qp) are in Octave itself, and the problem is
already known : http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38875.
How should we deal with this issue to prevent octave-stk-2.4.2-1 from
being removed from testing ?
I'd suggest to mark it as an xtest, since there is nothing you can do about right now.
Sounds good to me. A Debian-specific patch (that can be removed later when
octave is fixed) is probably the easy way, but you can also do a new upstream
release if you prefer.