[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#907358: ncbi-vdb: fix broken library on i386

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Tue Aug 28 13:02:22 BST 2018


On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 03:04:40PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>...
> It would also be perfectly reasonable to drop i386 as a supported
> architecture for ncbi-vdb if you prefer; but I suggest you then make sure to
> actually do this, rather than shipping a broken library package on i386.
>...

Additionally, there is a baseline violation on i386:
https://sources.debian.org/src/ncbi-vdb/2.9.1-1+dfsg-1/debian/patches/add_-msse2.patch/

The userbase of this package on i386 is likely zero, so setting 
  Architecture: amd64
would IMHO be the best way forward.

> Cheers,

cu
Adrian

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