Aw: healpix-cxx: stuck in testing due to slow unit tests on mips builder

["Steffen Möller" <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hello,

> I noticed that healpix-cxx hasn't been able to migrate into testing because of a build failure on mips. It looks like the build timed out during unit tests. See build log:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?arch=mips&pkg=healpix-cxx
> 
> However, I just built it successfully using 'apt-get --build source healpix-cxx' on qemu using aurel32's instructions and images:
> 
> http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mips/
> 
> I used the 64-bit mips kernel and a wheezy image that I upgraded to sid.
> 
> I did have to let the build run overnight inside the emulator overnight on my 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7. Is it possible to request the package to be resubmitted to another mips builder?

I am not sure, but could we not just perform a binary upload of that MIPS package? Prepending to be a build demon ourselves? The emulated builds violate some policy, I presume. Also, you could decide not to run the unit tests if dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH indicates the MIPS architecture. Other ideas?

Cheers,

Steffen