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

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 06:28:05PM +0200, olivier sallou wrote:
> options:
> 
> * simply remove 32bit package from Debian.... (though should work on
> *small* datasets).

That would affect a lot of rdepends and thus a lot of work filling
ROM bugs.

> 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.

I agree that its use is definitely limited - but if we can get a simple
workaround (as Aaron suggested - implementation welcome I'm busy with
real life the next couple of days) this would just save work on our side
and might be the prefered solution.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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