[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#909071: pbbam: FTBFS on every release architecture where it previously built (fwd)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Steve,

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:06:22PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:35:23AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > And then there is the unrelated #908269 that currently prevents testing 
> > migration of pbbam.
> 
> > Steve seems to be addressing this with
> > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/409374477/pbbam_0.19.0+dfsg-1ubuntu3_0.19.0+dfsg-1ubuntu4.diff.gz
> 
> Yes, but the net result of this change is that now the autopkgtest fails by
> running out of memory during the package build at test time, which is why I
> haven't submitted a better patch to the BTS.
> 
> I think the ideal here would be to either have a way to generate just the
> single data file we need for the tests, or to capture that file from the
> package build and ship it in a binary package, so that we don't have to do a
> full rebuild during the autopkgtests.

Thanks a lot for the time you have spent into this leaf package.  I
think it is absolutely realistic that this package these days and also
for the next couple of years will be practically used only on amd64
architecture.  It might be sensible to draw a line here and simply
declare this package and its rdepends "Architecture: amd64" and move on
with problems that might affect more users and realistic applications
for other architectures.

What do you think?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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