[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#971755: shovill: built on architectures for which it's uninstallable

[Steve Langasek]

Package: shovill
Version: 1.1.0-2
Severity: serious
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu groovy

Hi Nilesh,

The shovill package is not migratable to testing because it depends on a
number of packages that are not portable and unavailable on !amd64 (spades,
skesa, megahit) but a binary is built on these architectures.

Since these per-arch binaries exist, they are expected by the archive policy
to be installable.

It looks to me like this is solvable by making shovill an Arch: all package
instead of an Arch: any package, since shovill is a simple perl script with
no compiled binaries.

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