[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1015187: orthanc-dicomweb, build-depedencies unsatisfiable on armel.

[Peter Michael Green]

Package: orthanc-dicomweb
Version: 1.7+dfsg-5

The build-dependencies of orthanc-dicomweb are not satisfiable on armel

>   package: orthanc-dicomweb
>   version: 1.7+dfsg-5
>   architecture: any
>   type: src
>   status: broken
>   reasons:
>    -
>     missing:
>      pkg:
>       package: node-ms
>       version: 2.1.3+~cs0.7.31-2
>       architecture: all
>       unsat-dependency: nodejs:armel
>      depchains:
>       -
>        depchain:
>         -
>          package: orthanc-dicomweb
>          version: 1.7+dfsg-5
>          architecture: any
>          type: src
>          depends: node-axios:armel
>         -
>          package: node-axios
>          version: 0.26.1+dfsg-2
>          architecture: all
>          depends: node-follow-redirects:armel (>= 1.13.0)
>         -
>          package: node-follow-redirects
>          version: 1.15.1+~1.14.1-2
>          architecture: all
>          depends: node-debug:armel
>         -
>          package: node-debug
>          version: 4.3.4+~cs4.1.7-1
>          architecture: all
>          depends: node-ms:armel
This in itself is nothing new, it was not previously rc however as there 
were no binary packages on armel.

However, a few days ago, the node-undici source package which builds the 
node-llhttp binary package was accepted into unstable, there was a 
screw-up in the packaging leading to the node-llhttp package briefly 
providing node-debug. As a result of this the build-dependencies of 
orthanc-dicomweb breifly became satisfiable on armel. The Debian 
autobuilders spotted this and succesfully built orthanc-dicomweb. Then a 
few days later the mistake in node-undici was fixed with the result that 
the build-dependencies of orthanc-dicomweb are once-again unsatisfiable 
on armel.

So now we have a binary package in testing and unstable that can't be 
rebuilt or updated, that is rc.

I see two possible routes forward.

1. Make dependency adjustments, either in orthanc-dicomweb or in 
packages it depends on so that it can be built on armel, I do not know 
how practical this is to do without causing other problems.
2. Declare orthanc-dicomweb unsupported on armel and file a removal 
request with the ftpmasters.