[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#834862: Bug#834862: hisat2: FTBFS on non-x86: -msse2 (and often -m32) unrecognized

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi,

>>> I’ll see what I can do. However, to be honest I’m not sure I have the time to do porting work on software in which using hardware optimised approaches is probably a main selling point… I would be more than happy to raise the issue with upstream though.
>> 
>> OK, thanks!  If there's no realistic prospect of supporting other
>> architectures, you could also restrict the Architecture field
>> accordingly, so that the excluded autobuilders won't bother trying to
>> touch the package.
> 
> Sure, I’ll just wait for upstream’s reply to the GitHub issue I raised. If there’s no success after some time then I’ll restrict the architectures. Since HISAT2 is very similar to Bowtie2 as far as the build system and implementation is concerned, I guess that is also a viable option, as that’s how it’s done in that package.

FYI, since there hasn’t been any reaction from upstream I’m just going to adjust the architecture field soon.

Cheers
Sascha