[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#873866: Bug#873866: tophat: Please add arm64

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Alex,

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 02:09:57PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> 
> Well, technically it might be correct, but I doubt that there is a
> working pipeline involving tophat, bowtie and friends on non-amd64
> architectures.

My personal opinion is that arm64 might have good chances to be used
in the not to distant future.

> So, at least from this point of view there might be no need in this
> software on other architectures. Also supporting more architectures
> means more bugs and maintenance time, especially when upstream has no
> interest for this.

As a compromise I've added bowtie to Build-Depends of tophat and we
might see whether we will get some bug reports now.  If not I see no
real harm done to give it a try.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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