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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:45:33PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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?

All problems discussed are on amd64.

> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.

cu
Adrian

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