#1101569 whitakers-words: smoke test fails on i386 and s390x

Package:
whitakers-words
Source:
whitakers-words
Description:
Latin word parser and translation aid
Submitter:
Nicolas Boulenguez
Date:
2025-03-29 14:57:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1101569#5
Date:
2025-03-29 14:53:47 UTC
From:
To:
Hello.

The "smoke test" part of the upstream test/run-tests.sh script, run by
Debian autopkgtests, fails and prevents the migration to testing.
https://ci.debian.net/packages/w/whitakers-words/

On s390x, the executable crashes while reading its data files because
a validity check detects invalid data.
  raised CONSTRAINT_ERROR : latin_utils-inflections_package.adb:449:32 invalid data
  value 83886080 not in 0..7
  Files - and test/expected.txt differ

On i386, the executable starts, but always answers "UNKNOWN".
  (seen on a porterbox.  It would be nice to replace 'diff -q' with
  'diff -u' in run-tests.sh)

It makes sense that the package is kept out of official Debian
releases until these issues are investigated.  Less obvious symptoms
may affect other architectures.