[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#969608: ncbi-blast+: regressions on armhf

[Steve Langasek]

Source: ncbi-blast+
Version: 2.10.0-1
Severity: grave
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu groovy

Dear maintainers,

It appears that ncbi-blast+ 2.10 has regressed on armhf, and is
significantly broken.  In Ubuntu, all of the autopkgtests triggered by
ncbi-blast+ have regressed on this arch, including those of ncbi-blast+
itself:

  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/n/ncbi-blast+/groovy/armhf
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/k/kaptive/groovy/armhf
  https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/r/ruby-crb-blast/groovy/armhf

I have reproduced the ncbi-blast+ autopkgtest failure on abel.debian.org,
confirming this is not a problem specific to the Debian build.

In addition, the python-pyani reverse-dependency fails to build on armhf in
both Debian and Ubuntu (the current Debian package was built on the
autobuilders against the previous version of ncbi-blast+, but I've
reproduced this failure as well in unstable on abel):

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-pyani/0.2.10-2/+build/19218920

I think this rises to the level of a grave bug, since armhf is a release
architecture and the binaries for this architecture appear to be largely
unusable.  Either the armhf binaries should be removed or they should be
made to work on armhf.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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