On 7 September 2017 at 03:15, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > Why do the tests for hfst need to be disabled? > > I think it would be better to keep them enabled so that we can ensure > that hfst works correctly. Broken binaries are worse than FTBFS. You > can ask for removal of the existing binaries from the architectures > where the FTBFS happens by using `reportbug ftp.debian.org`.
The binaries are not broken, though. It's one out of a hundred tests that fails. It's more that some of the file formats are not endian-neutral (e.g. OpenFST). For the purpose of working with HFST locally and exchanging the neutral files, it works fine. -- Tino Didriksen
