[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#925499: bowtie2 arm64 (aarch64) package

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 09:38:56AM +0100, Michael Crusoe wrote:
> Thank you for your report and for your work to improve the architecture
> support on several projects!

+1
 
> I think this is a good idea for after the "buster" release. Could you
> prepare a pull request at https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/bowtie2 and we
> can merge it then?
> 
> Alternatively we could do a build in the experimental suite, and then you
> could test building all the packages that have a build-time or run-time
> dependency on bowtie2 under aarch64.

I admit I was also wondering whether it would help to upload the new
bowtie2 version to experimental.

> I have a feeling that we may need to
> adjust some (many?) other packages which is why I advocate for this to wait
> for the next release cycle. If it goes well, then we could backport the
> adjustments (or propose for the "buster.1" point release).

+1 (or at least to usual backports which should be sufficient for
practical cases)

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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