Re: Package octave-statistics 1.6.0 FTBFS

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2023-06-07 16:06]:

> Le mardi 06 juin 2023 à 14:44 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > I started the preparation of version 1.6.0-1 of the octave-statistics
> > package in the Git repository at Salsa. The package FTBFS due to failing
> > BISTs. I fixed two problems with patches (one of them forwarded upstream
> > [*]) but there many others still. I would appreciate if you could take a
> > look at the package now in Git.
>
> Ok, I don’t have the time right now but I will have a look into it at 
> some point after the bookworm release.
>
> Note that since a few releases, upstream is being very active in adding 
> new functionalities, and thus new tests. Those new tests often have too 
> tight tolerances, leading to build failures on various architectures. 
> The fixes are often trivial (increasing tolerances), and I’ve submitted 
> many such patches upstream recently.

The remaining BIST failures in octave-statistics are related to graphics, 
four of them with this error message:

    !!!!! test failed
    set: "cameratarget" must be finite

and six of them with this one:

    !!!!! test failed
    setappdata: H must be a scalar or vector of graphic handles

The problem may come from the way the BISTs are run in dh_octave_check.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière