Re: Bug#877419: Bug#877700: RM: pandas [arm64 armel armhf mips mips64el mipsel s390x] -- ROM; Some build time tests are failing on specific architectures

[Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@debian.org>]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, Andreas Tille wrote:

>    1. proceed as I suggested here:
>       https://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2017/10/msg00001.html
>...
> Is there anybody who is no happy about this?

sorry to be the pain, I am ... And first of all -- thanks for taking
care about pandas!

I would disagree on the complete disabling of the tests.  Selective
annotation of failed tests at least allows maintainer's judgement on
either any particular failure of critical importance.  Disabling ALL
tests would let a completely broken package into the Debian for that
architecture (not to mention that we did have failures on big-endians
signal generic problems in the code, which just weren't triggered on
x86s)... then why to have it there in that architecture at all?

If ftp masters and porters insist on "better to have a broken one than
none", I would argue that unlike typical software, where bugs are usually
"obvious" to the user (things just fail), in scientific/data oriented
software bugs are more inconspicuous  -- you just place data in and get
some garbage out possibly without realizing it.  

In summary my 1c: I am ok with RM for those archs (again), or
partial disabling of the tests, but not  ok with overall disabling of
the test suite

>    2. Upload after migrating the package to Debian Science as
>       we previously agreed upon.

do you mean migrating of a Vcs?

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