[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#949966: libgclib-dev: getLine ABI uses off_t and thus depends on _FILE_OFFSET_BITS

[Steffen Möller]

On 29.01.20 16:26, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 04:14:26PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> I have implemented a solution in Git[1] but want to discuss other options
>> here.  Latest upstream version seem to need a SONAME bump anyway as far
>> as I can see.
> You can just set future=-lfs unconditionally. It really affects all
> 32bit archs. A better check might be $(DEB_HOST_ARCH_BITS)==32, but the
> option is meaningless for 64bit, so you can really just set it without
> any branching. Please save the next 32bit architecture the trouble from
> having to add the option.
>
>> I wonder what you think how important large file support in gffread might
>> be for those rarely used architectures.
> I don't make any statement on whether lfs is important. I just figured
> that it fails to build from source. I didn't even read the package
> description. ;)

Large file support is important for DNA/RNA sequencing. I can well
imagine some smaller machines embedded in some hardware that
create/move/merge files around or edit some metadata within.

Many thanks for addressing this!

Steffen