[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#976585: This package only builds Arch:all binary packages

[Ivo De Decker]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi Lucas,

Thanks for al your QA work!

On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 09:45:34PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> This package only builds Arch:all binary packages. Unfortunately, I
> don't think that we have a way to indicate that such binary packages
> must be built on a specific architecture, and thus avoid a failure on
> arm64.
> 
> In those cases, building those packages on amd64 works fine, so the bug
> is limited to building arch:all packages on specific architectures.
> 
> I pondered downgrading the severity of those bugs, but in some cases,
> it could indicate severe bugs in other packages, or packaging bugs such
> as confusing arch:any and arch:all.
> 
> However, I don't object to someone else downgrading them.

I'm doing so now.

Some of these are probably real bugs somewhere that should be fixed, but the
bugs doesn't need to be serious for that. These certainly aren't issues which
would merit delaying the release.

Note that if it turns out that some of these bugs are in fact caused by real
brokenness (other than not being able to build the arch: all packages on
arm64), the severity of those specific bugs can obviously be increased again
(with a note explaining what exactly is broken).

> For reference, here are the packages I ran into in that category:
> akuma 976548
> backward-cpp 976582
> bmagic 976517
> dune-localfunctions 976552
> golang-github-disintegration-imaging 976565
> golang-github-labstack-gommon 976578
> golang-github-linuxkit-virtsock 976564
> golang-github-montanaflynn-stats 976562
> golang-github-rcrowley-go-metrics 976543
> golang-github-robertkrimen-otto 976549
> golang-github-shirou-gopsutil 976509
> golang-google-cloud 976507
> jctools 976534
> jnr-ffi 976521
> libcereal 976585
> libmiglayout-java 976546
> multiboot 976502
> nova 976590
> python-fluids 976558
> python-ptrace 976468
> rapidjson 976536
> xenium 976480
> xfonts-100dpi 976571
> xfonts-75dpi 976471
> xfonts-cyrillic 976510

Cheers,

Ivo