[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1022570: Bug#1022307: status on t_coffee causing biopython ftbfs

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:54:48PM +0100, Étienne Mollier a écrit :
> 
> Hi, mostly retitling the open entry against biopython for the
> sake of clarity, and also pinging both bugs to reset auto-
> removal counters.  We don't have much news from t_coffee
> upstream to day unfortunately.  Maybe it will be necessary to
> revert the t-coffee version bump for the upcoming Debian release
> or do people see other options?

Hi Étienne,

I think that we do not have enough evidence that t_coffee was properly
tested on other architectures than amd64.  Even though a particular
version may build fine, and let biophython pass its tests, we do not
know if t_coffee produces sound results on these architectures.  Unless
we know or hear from an ARM user, I would recommend to play safe and
only distribute it on amd64 for this release.

Have a nice day,

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