[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#631249: Bug#631249: Current t-coffee builds on all architectures

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 09:50:02AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> according to
> 
>    https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=t-coffee
> 
> the current t-coffee builds on all architectures.  Can we close
> this bug now?

Hi Andreas,

the main problem was that t-coffee hangs forever on the armel architecture.
Whether the build completed or not just reflected whether testing the binary
was part of the build or not.  In 2012, I disabled this test, but unfortunately
the commit message (revision 9694) does not explain well why I did this.
Probably because the way the test was implemented was wasting ARM buildd time.

As of today, we do not know if the binary package that we distribute on armel
really works or not.  I think that this bug reflects well the situation.  Maybe
the simplest way to close it would be to restrict the build to the amd64
architecture ? 

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan