Re: octave-statistics 1.5.4 FTBFS

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2023-04-22 10:13]:

> Le vendredi 21 avril 2023 à 11:28 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2023-04-20 11:00]:
> >
> > > Le lundi 06 mars 2023 à 07:33 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > > > I am trying to update the octave-statistics package for the new upstream 
> > > > version 1.5.4. On my system (amd64 untable), the build hangs when 
> > > > executing the last unit test in file inst/dendrogram.m. I will be 
> > > > grateful if anyone could check this issue. The changes for version 1.5.4 
> > > > have been committed to the Git repository at Salsa.
> > >
> > > Thanks for working on this new version. The package builds fine on my 
> > > machine, so I made the upload (with a few additional changes).
> >
> > Thanks, Sébastien!
> >
> > > We’ll see how it goes on the buildds.
> >
> > It FTBFS for armel, i386, and ppc64el.
>
> Indeed. I uploaded 1.5.4-2 but there are still some test failures. One 
> is already fixed in the git, the other one I reported upstream: 
> https://github.com/gnu-octave/statistics/issues/92

Thanks for all that.

A unit test in inst/crossval.m is still failing on ppc64el. Should we 
simply increase the expected tolerance for it?

Best,

Rafael Laboissière