[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#960756: Bug#960756: python-biopython FTBFS on 32bit: test_NCBI_BLAST_tools.BlastDB failures

[olivier sallou]

Le mar. 9 juin 2020 à 16:47, Aaron M. Ucko <ucko at debian.org> a écrit :

> Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 02:25:58PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> >> My current impression is that makeblastdb is unable to work
> >> properly on most 32 bits machines, because the amount of memory
> >> needing to be addressed by the process looks like it might
> >> exceed too easily 32 bits architectural limits.
>
> That's entirely plausible; upstream tends to assume 64-bit systems
> nowadays.  Explicitly supplying -blastdb_version 4 (the default prior to
> BLAST+ 2.10.x) may help.
>

options:

* simply remove 32bit package from Debian.... (though should work on
*small* datasets).
more and more systems are going to 64bit only, and we don't have the task
force to fix 32bits issues on such software (too much effort)
OR
* ignore issue as it is related to memory management but will work on
relatively *small* jobs, so software is ~OK 'till a certain point.

Olivier

>
> Thanks for calling this report to my attention!
>
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