Bug#961334: octave-mapping FTBFS on big endian: test failures

Control: reassign -1 octave-io 2.6.1-1
Control: affects -1 src:octave-mapping
Control: close -1 2.6.1-2

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:32:04AM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> * Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> [2020-05-23 15:33]:
> 
> > Source: octave-mapping
> > Version: 1.4.0-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: ftbfs
> > 
> > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=octave-mapping&arch=s390x&ver=1.4.0-1&stamp=1586986257&raw=0
> > 
> > ... shaperead: file /tmp/oct-fdWy3e.dbf couldn't be read;           no
> > attributes appended !!!!! test failed ASSERT errors for:  assert (sum
> > (ism),numel (ism))
> > 
> >  Location  |  Observed  |  Expected  |  Reason
> >     ()           3            5         Abs err 2 exceeds tol 0 by 2
> > ... shaperead: file /tmp/oct-mxym2n.dbf couldn't be read;           no
> > attributes appended !!!!! test failed ASSERT errors for:  assert (sum
> > (ism),numel (ism))
> > 
> >  Location  |  Observed  |  Expected  |  Reason
> >     ()           4            6         Abs err 2 exceeds tol 0 by 2
> > ... Summary: 386 tests, 384 passed, 0 known failures, 0 skipped Some
> > tests failed.  Giving up... make: *** [debian/rules:5: binary-arch]
> > Error 1
> 
> The bug is actually in the dbfwrite and dbfread functions in the octave-io
> package, which are used in the unit test of function shapewrite of the
> octave-mapping package, whose failure is shown above.
> 
> I filed a bug report in the upstream bug tracker, regarding this issue:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?58457
> 
> I will patch the octave-io package, in order to fix the problem.

Thanks, octave-mapping built now.
I am updating the bug metadata.

> Best,
> 
> Rafael

cu
Adrian