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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:35:37AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> 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.

As far as I can see, it builds, it just fails in the test suite.
Has anyone actually looked at why it failed?

> > 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.

Other packages just don't get built on the other arches anymore,
while they did build succesfuly.  So they can't move to testing
unless you remove the previous version that are now in unstable.
So either this bug is RC, or we need to file bugs against the
reverse dependencies of this package.


Kurt