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

[Sascha Steinbiss]

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Hi Andreas,

thanks for the input. I was aware of the procedure, but wanted to
avoid having to potentially file removals twice. I think I will add a
build time test to confirm the binaries are functional, and then ask
ftpmaster to remove only ones that don't build+test successfully after
that. If the non-Intel amd64 archs turn out to work anyway, even better
:)

Cheers
Sascha

>>> 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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