[Debian-med-packaging] SSPACE testing migration

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Andreas.

thanks for your helpful input!

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 02:30:26PM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
>> I'm sorry I've got one of these^{tm} again, but SSPACE [1] also is
>> currently not entering testing, apparently because of a 64-bit only
>> package (bowtie) not being available on i386 [2].
>> SSPACE (arch:all) itself is a Perl script, so it doesn't build anything
>> arch specific. I guess this is another one of the cases discussed before
>> [3-4] and I was wondering if you could please add a force-hint.
> 
> TTBOMK, the easiest way to deal with this is adding bowtie to
> Build-Depends.

OK.

> IMHO an extra plus would be to add a build time test
> which also runs bowtie so this would not even be a fake dependency.

I agree. I can try just running the autopkgtest at build time, it's
quite quick.

Thanks
Sascha


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