[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#819617: bcftools: FTBFS: test suite fails on several architectures

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 01:02:03AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >> Any other volunteer?  I think if the problem persists until our advent
> >> bug squashing party I'll ask for removal of the packages for the
> >> affected architectures. 
> >>
> > 
> > We'd need a new source package, not just a new binary package for the
> > pysam source code. I think you can expect for this bug not to be
> > resolved soon, so I see that it is either the pysam source-package copy
> > or the removal of rdeps on i386.
> 
> Come to think of it, this might not be the only hurdle. If bcftools
> becomes available on i386, pysam might still not be able to build on it
> because of #834856 -- that is a FTBFS on 32-bit platforms and it affects
> the samtools interface. I hadn't forwarded that report to pysam upstream
> because it was originally reported as a mips-specific problem. I can
> probably forward that tomorrow.

Both of your mails let me think that its now time to ask ftpmaster to
remove the affected architectures.  Its better to do this now than later
since we need to make it through the whole chain of dependencies. Any
better idea?

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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