On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:57:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Package: mlucas > Version: 20.1.1-1 > Severity: serious > Tags: patch > Justification: FTBFS > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com > Usertags: origin-ubuntu lunar ubuntu-patch > > Hi Alex, > > In addition to bug #1014547 causing mlucas to fail to build on all arm > architectures, after working around this bug the package still fails to > build on arm64 where it successfully built before. This is because the > arm64 SIMD implementation is known buggy with respect to the fermat number > feature - there is an assert in the code that causes test/fermat-test to > fail immediately: > > [...] > ERROR: at line 1150 of file upstream/src/Mlucas.c > Assertion failed: ARMv8 SIMD builds do not support Fermat-number testing! > [...] > > (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mlucas/20.1.1-1ubuntu1/+build/24577469) > > The previous version of mlucas was removed from testing because it depends > on python2 which has been removed, so the only options here are either to > have the ftp team remove the arm64 binary, or to ignore the test failure. > > In Ubuntu, I have done the latter by applying the attached patch.
I applied this patch but now I wonder: if the SIMD binary does not work, surely we should remove it rather than not test it ? Or at least run the other tests ? Cheers, Bill.
