Re: [buildd] giveback hypre 2.16.0 on hurd m68k sh4

On 2019-07-26 16:59, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello Drew!
> 
> On 7/26/19 3:03 AM, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> hypre occasionally times out during tests, causing FTBFS. Typically it 
>> will
>> pass if tried again. Please give back hypre 2.16.0-2 to attempt builds 
>> again
>> on hurd-i386  m68k sh4.
> 
> Your package overrides "dh_auto_test" but does not check whether
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
> contains "nocheck" so that it's no longer possible to toggle the 
> testsuite when
> running sbuild through environment variables [1].
> 
> Could you put an if condition around your testsuite invocation like 
> LibreOffice,
> for example? [2]
> 
> The background is that both m68k and sh4 are building packages using 
> qemu,
> so running the testsuite can have various side effects and fail 
> unexpectedly.
> 
> Furthermore, not being able to disable the testsuite means it's not 
> possible
> to cross-build a package which always mandates the testsuite to be 
> disabled
> as the testsuite cannot run on the build architecture.

Thanks for the feedback, Adrian. I'll put in the check for nocheck, 
hopefully m68k and sh4 will then build happily with the next upload.

Drew