Re: Bug#961334: octave-mapping FTBFS on big endian: test failures

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> [2020-05-23 15:33]:

> Source: octave-mapping
> Version: 1.4.0-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs
>
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-mapping&arch=s390x&ver=1.4.0-1&stamp=1586986257&raw=0
>
> ... 
> shaperead: file /tmp/oct-fdWy3e.dbf couldn't be read; 
>           no attributes appended 
> !!!!! test failed 
> ASSERT errors for:  assert (sum (ism),numel (ism))
>
>  Location  |  Observed  |  Expected  |  Reason
>     ()           3            5         Abs err 2 exceeds tol 0 by 2
> ... 
> shaperead: file /tmp/oct-mxym2n.dbf couldn't be read; 
>           no attributes appended 
> !!!!! test failed 
> ASSERT errors for:  assert (sum (ism),numel (ism))
>
>  Location  |  Observed  |  Expected  |  Reason
>     ()           4            6         Abs err 2 exceeds tol 0 by 2
> ... 
> Summary: 386 tests, 384 passed, 0 known failures, 0 skipped 
> Some tests failed.  Giving up... 
> make: *** [debian/rules:5: binary-arch] Error 1

The bug is actually in the dbfwrite and dbfread functions in the 
octave-io package, which are used in the unit test of function shapewrite 
of the octave-mapping package, whose failure is shown above.

I filed a bug report in the upstream bug tracker, regarding this issue: 
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?58457

I will patch the octave-io package, in order to fix the problem.

Best,

Rafael




> debian-s390 is Cc'ed on this bug.