[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#948436: paleomix: builds binaries on architectures that are not installable

[Steve Langasek]

Source: paleomix
Version: 1.2.13.3-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal

Hi Andreas,

It seems the paleomix package has recently started being buildable on more
architectures than amd64 (it's built on arm64, mips64el, and ppc64el in
Debian unstable).  However, these binaries are uninstallable, because
paleomix depends on other packages which are amd64-only:

# apt install paleomix r-base-core 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 paleomix : Depends: examl but it is not installable
            Depends: picard-tools but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
#

The paleomix package should probably have a build-dependency on examl and
picard-tools, so that it doesn't accidentally get built on architectures
where it will not be installable, which will among other things cause
problems for testing migration.

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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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