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

* Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> [2020-05-28 12:40]:

> 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.

I uploaded version 1.4.0-2 of the octave-mapping package, which 
build-depends on octave-io >= 2.6.1-2.

Thanks,

Rafael