[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1049876: Bug#1050491: RM: bbhash [armel armhf i386 mipsel powerpc Buildd exposure stats hurd-i386 hppa sh4] -- ROM; Does not build on 32bit architectures

Emanuele Rocca ema at debian.org
Fri Aug 25 13:14:55 BST 2023


Hi,

On 2023-08-25 09:46, Graham Inggs wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 09:03, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> > upstream does not support 32bit and the usage of this package on 32bit is
> > questionable anyway so please remove all 32bit builds of this package.
> 
> Andreas, what 32-bit builds?  bbhash has never built on 32-bit architectures.
> 
> Emanuele, since when is this RC?

My apologies! For some reason I was convinced bbhash and btllib did
build in the past.

In both cases it seems to make sense to limit the Architecture field to
the supported ones, given that as far as I understand both packages and
are not portable? See:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#architecture



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