Bug#848410: python-biom-format: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-19 Thread Daniel McDonald
n find the full build log here: > >https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=python- > biom-format&arch=i386&ver=2.1.5%2Bdfsg-6&stamp=1482186822 > > Any idea what might be wrong here? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016

Bug#848410: python-biom-format: FTBFS randomly (failing tests)

2016-12-19 Thread Daniel McDonald
uot; Best, Daniel On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:15 AM, Greg Caporaso wrote: > Hi Andreas, I'm cc'ing Daniel McDonald on this message, who is the primary > maintainer of the biom-format package these days. Daniel, could you follow > up with Andreas? > > On Sat, Dec 17, 20

Bug#820060: Re: Debian Bug#820060: python-biom-format: broken on big-endian architectures

2016-07-11 Thread Daniel McDonald
Hi Steve, Thanks for following up. As I understand it, this is an issue with either h5py or libhdf5. We have not modified the behavior of these libraries, and are using them in a very basic manner; endianness is outside of our control here. It is possible the issue is related to ( https://github.c

Bug#820060: Debian Bug#820060: python-biom-format: broken on big-endian architectures

2016-04-05 Thread Daniel McDonald
Thanks, Greg. Andreas, my read of the bug report suggests that the issue across architectures is h5py or hdf5. The access being made is to an attribute of an h5py object which happens within python and is a valid API operation; testing locally I'd expect a different KeyError to be thrown under nor