[Debian-med-packaging] circlator (arch all) stuck in unstable because dependencies not available on i386

[Afif Elghraoui]

Hi, Andreas,

على الإثنين 28 آذار 2016 ‫23:09، كتب Andreas Tille:
> Hi Afif,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:36:06PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>> circlator, an arch all package, can't migrate to testing, apparently
>> because a couple of its dependencies (bwa and spades) are not built on i386.
>>
>> According to the FAQ at <https://www.debian.org/devel/testing>, there is
>> a hack in place to avoid this situation for the more exotic architecures.
>>
>> Has anyone run into this problem before or know who to contact about
>> this? Should I post to debian-devel about it?
> 
> I admit I do not remember by heart.  A hacky workaround would be to set
> circulator to amd64 architecture which is wrong in principle but the
> effect would be the same (as long as the number of architectures of the
> dependencies is not enhanced.
> 

I'd rather not go that direction... but if this is the best option under
our control, I think I should raise the general issue with debian-devel.

Thanks for the feedback
Afif

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