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

2016-07-11 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, Please keep me on Cc:, the Debian BTS does not automatically cc: bug submitters :) > 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 vali

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

2016-04-05 Thread Daniel McDonald
st, Daniel On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Greg Caporaso wrote: > Thanks for sharing this. > > Daniel, Yoshiki - any ideas about this? > > Greg > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Andreas Tille > Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:18 PM > Subject: Debian Bug#8200

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

2016-04-05 Thread Greg Caporaso
Thanks for sharing this. Daniel, Yoshiki - any ideas about this? Greg -- Forwarded message -- From: Andreas Tille Date: Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:18 PM Subject: Debian Bug#820060: python-biom-format: broken on big-endian architectures To: Greg Caporaso , 820...@bugs.debian.org Hi

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

2016-04-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Greg, I'm hereby forwarding a bug report against the Debian packaged biom-format. It would be great if you can either fix the issue (which would be the prefered solution) or explain that for some reason big-endian is not supported and we need to exclude these architectures from the build. Kin

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

2016-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
Package: python-biom-format Version: 2.1.4+dfsg-1 Severity: serious As seen at http://buildd.debian.org/python-biom-format, this package fails to build on all big-endian architectures in the archive (mips, powerpc, s390x). While this build failure has only appeared with the upload of 2.1.5+dfsg-1