[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#724711: insighttoolkit4: Drops architecture support

[Steve M. Robbins]

severity 724711 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 01:14:13AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> It seems that insighttoolkit4 4.4.2-2 restricted itself to support
> i386 and amd64.  The only reason I can find for that is that the
> test suite had some errors on the other arches. I generally find
> this a poor excuse to drop support for arches.

It was not a decision taken lightly, I assure you.  ITK v4 has been in
the archive for 1 year and 7 months.  In all that time we were not
able to get it building on other architectures so it was never able to
enter testing.  I believe Debian is better served by having two
supported architectures rather than zero.


> Since this is a new source package, this normally wouldn't be an
> RC bug.  But there are other source pacakges that now
> build-depend on insighttoolkit4-dev and are now blocked because
> of this, and they used to build on other arches.

Other packages are blocked not because the arches were dropped, but
because ITK isn't in testing.  Dropping unsupported arches is simply
admitting reality.

-Steve
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