[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#824997: Bug#824997: rna-star: FTBFS on non-64bit archs

[Andreas Tille]

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 02:50:19PM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> > 
> > Fine.  Feel free to ask ftpmaster for removal of these architectures.
> 
> Ok, will do later. I’m quite inclined to just put in *amd64 as upstream does not say anything about supporting arm64, ppc64el, mips64el and the like.

Only very few upstreams are explicitly specifying these architectures.
The default procedure is to upload for all architectures a package
builds without problems (porters are even providing patches for
*building* - without knowing whether a package really runs as expected).
Since we do not have reasons to assume that a package does not run on an
"not so common" architecture before somebody files a bug report we
assume that everything works as expected.

> An alternative would be to add a quick build time test for those arch, but if these fail I would need to request their removal anyway as they are currently built untested. Any preferences?

I confirm that providing build time tests is a good idea for any of
our packages - so also for this.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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