[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#962675: can cdbfasta be marked Multi-Arch: foreign?

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:26:47PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> 
> microbiomeutil fails to cross build from source, because it fails
> running cdbfasta with an "Exec format error". Usually, this indicates
> that the relevant package should be marked Multi-Arch: foreign. It is
> not entirely clear to me whether doing so is correct. Can you help me
> figure out? Please point out what is wrong below.
> 
> Reading the cdbfasta manual page, it seems to be a tool for transforming
> file formats. Looking into microbiomeutil, it seems that the input
> format is textual. Textual file formats usually are
> architecture-independent. Then microbiomeutil installs the output files
> into an architecture-independent package. If those output files were
> architecture-dependent, then microbiomeutil would be wrong in doing so.
> This suggests that the marking should be correct. The question really
> is: Does the command line interface or input/output format of cdbfasta
> or cdbyank depend on the processor architecture it is being run on? If
> the answer is "no", please mark it Multi-Arch: foreign. If the answer is
> "yes", please close this bug. If the answer is not clear, please get in
> touch we me an we can figure out together.

Getting in touch with you and the Debian Med mailing list since the
answer is not clear to me.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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