[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1061344: User input needed: Stop supporting 32 bit architectures with emboss (Was: emboss-lib: identified for time_t transition but no ABI in shlibs)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi again,

I've filed bug #1062371

    RM: emboss [armel armhf i386 hppa m68k powerpc sh4] -- ROM; No support of 32 bit architectures any more

Kind regards
    Andreas.

Am Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 07:53:26AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Hi again,
> 
> besides my suggested solution to split up emboss-lib again (and when
> doing so make the package emboss-lib a metapackage depending from single
> packages to match all its rdepends) I wonder whether we should provide
> EMBOSS for 64 bit architectures only.  While we probably need to file a
> lot of removal requests to 32 bit packages of its rdepends it somehow
> fits the reality that these days nobody seriously runs emboss on 32bit
> architectures.  As explained in the according wiki page[1] other binary
> distros are dropping 32-bit at all and Debian rather cares for
> automotive, IOT, TVs, routers, plant control, building
> monitoring/control, cheap Android phones - nothing that is using EMBOSS.
> 
> I would really like to get some input from *our users* here on the
> Debian Med list since I need your response to draw a sensible decision.
> 
> Kind regards
>     Andreas.
> 
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
> 
> Am Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 10:44:09AM +0100 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> > Hi Charles,
> > 
> > I wonder how we can properly solve this bug.  In the early stage of
> > Emboss packaging obviously the packages
> > 
> >            libajax6,
> >            libajax6-dev,
> >            libnucleus6,
> >            libnucleus6-dev
> > 
> > existed (thus the remaining Conflicts/Replaces on emboss-lib which can
> > probably be removed right now).  I wonder whether we should restore those
> > single library package per shared library + devel package, merge
> > static+shared library in one package or even merge
> > 
> >    libacd 6 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> >    libajax 6 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> >    libajaxdb 6 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> >    libajaxg 6 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> >    libensembl 6 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> >    libnucleus 6 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> > 
> > in libemboss6
> > 
> >    libepcre 7 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> > 
> > in libemboss-pcre7 (ugly since its a code copy of pcre3 but well,
> > that's another battle field) and
> > 
> >    libeplplot 3 emboss-lib (>= 6.6.0+dfsg)
> > 
> > in libemboss-plplot3 to express the proper sonames inside the library
> > package names.  Any more sensible suggestion is pretty welcome.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> >     Andreas.
> > 
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