[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#992819: RM: kma [armel armhf i386 mipsel hppa hurd-i386 kfreebsd-i386 m68k powerpc sh4] -- ROM; broken on 32bits architectures

[Étienne Mollier]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Greetings,

When investigating autopkgtest failures in the package
resfinder, Nilesh discovered kma has been improperly working on
32 bits architectures [1].  Following discussions with upstream,
it turned out that "KMA have not been working on 32-bit
computers since the beginning, and it probably never will."

Since usage of 32 bits is anecdotal in compute intensive
context, and we probably won't have upstream support for this,
we agreed to drop support of 32 bits architectures for kma.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2021/08/msg00073.html
[2]: https://bitbucket.org/genomicepidemiology/kma/issues/42/kma_index-problems-with-working-on-32-bits

(I hope I haven't forgotten any 32bits architecture in the
list.)

Have a nice day,  :)
-- 
Étienne Mollier <emollier at emlwks999.eu>
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