[Debian-med-packaging] broken package removal for some architectures

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Tue Dec 8 14:46:58 UTC 2015


Confirming the described procedure.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:31:04PM +0000, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just wanting to quickly confirm: if I find out that a package does not work as intended on a target architecture (here sparc64 due to memory alignment issues) and upstream is unlikely to work these out, it is OK to just remove this arch in the control file, upload a new version and then request the removal of the broken old debs for this arch from the archive?
> 
> That’s what I have seen was done for the recent HMMER issue but since I have encountered such a case myself now I just wanted to check this is the usual way to go. 
> 
> Cheers
> Sascha

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