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

[Wookey]

On 2017-09-04 14:09 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> On 09/04/2017 12:00 PM, Wookey wrote:
> > On 2017-09-04 10:06 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >> Hi Edmund,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 07:37:38PM +0100, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote:
> >>> It seems to be possible to build this package on arm64.
> >>> Is there any reason why it would not work on arm64?
> >>
> >> It might be that tophat builds on other architectures but it Depends
> >> bowtie2 | bowtie and these are only available on the explicitly
> >> specified architectures.
> > 
> > Now in this case bowtie is already built for arm64, so your reasoning
> > for the arch restriction seems to be out of date.

> > So in fact I think you should just remove the arch restriction.

> Well, technically it might be correct, but I doubt that there is a
> working pipeline involving tophat, bowtie and friends on non-amd64
> architectures.

Well. I just built it, and installed it (along with bowtie). How do I
test if it works? It seems that I need some kind of input file(s). I
don't know anything about DNA sequencing.

> 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.

In general Debian tries to build software for all architectures where
it works. This makes it easy for users to use it on whatever hardware
they have. Upstreams may not understand that architectures other than
x86 exist, but that's not a very good reason in itself for not
building stuff. ppc64el has very fast hardware for example.



Wookey
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