[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#749367: Bug#749367: htslib: Is a solution available?

[Charles Plessy]

Le Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:18:29PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
> Hi,
> Has anyone tested the patch that was applied upstream [1] regarding this
> issue? I'm asking because the corresponding upstream ticket is still
> open and the commit message on the patch describes it as a "partial fix".
> 
> I am not particularly interested in mips/mipsel, but this build failure
> is preventing testing migration (and therefore backporting) of samtools
> and several other dependencies because they are BD-uninstallable for
> these architectures.

Hi Afif,

if you would like, please feel free to backport the fix and upload htslib,
to see if it builds.

If it does not build, how about asking for the removal of samtools on mips and
armhf from testing (not unstable), provided that htslib never built there and
that for that reason we can not reasonably support samtools on these platforms
until the problem is solved upstream.  Once the removal from testing is done,
migration will be possible on the remaining architectures.

PS: also feel free to add yourself as Uploader if you have a long-term interest
for htslib.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles