[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#602667: samtools: FTBFS on armel

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 11:20:34PM +0000, Hector Oron wrote:
> Package: samtools
> Version: 0.1.9-1
> Severity: serious
> ...
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid

I wonder whether we should simply leave out arm architecture for the
Squeeze release.  I perfectly agree with the principle that any program
should run on any released arch and we are increasing software if we try
to fix those problems.  However, to not add any additional pressure to
the release it might be a reasonable way to go to simply exclude this
package from arm where it is not used in practical cases (at least these
days where gene sequencing is not (yet) done on large arm clusters).
For sure - if there would be a simple patch it should be applied.

Kind regards and thanks for your arm porting work in any case

    Andreas.

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