[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1105180: pique: depends on unavailable plink1.9 on arm64

[Étienne Mollier]

Hi Chris, Hi Release Team,

Chris, thanks for watching us!  I happen to have had a look at
an eventual portability of plink1.9 to arm64 yesterday evening
and my assessment is that it could only be a matter of adjusting
detection of sse2 support by adding the missing macro at a few
tactical points.  However, it is also likely that I will run
into the following autopkgtest error on arm64 if I don't get my
patch right:

	PLINK v1.9.0-b.7.7 32-bit (22 Oct 2024)            cog-genomics.org/plink/1.9/
	(C) 2005-2024 Shaun Purcell, Christopher Chang   GNU General Public License v3
	Logging to plink.log.
	Options in effect:
	  --file toy
	  --freq
	
	128742 MB RAM detected; reserving 2047 MB for main workspace.
	.ped scan complete (for binary autoconversion).
	Performing single-pass .bed write (2 variants, 2 people).
	94%malloc(): invalid size (unsorted)
	qemu: uncaught target signal 6 (Aborted) - core dumped
	Aborted

There are some comments in the code about misalignment issues
around a malloc invocation.  I can check tonight if I actually
get somewhere with that strategy.

Alternatively, if inclusion of plink1.9 in arm64 is not an
option, then I suppose there is also the possibility to revert
to pique 1.0 and inline the missing dataset necessary to resolve
#1104275 into the debian/ directory instead of the upstream data
introduced in 1.1; I think the dependency of plink1.9 came along
with v1.1 while v1.0 worked fine with the older plain plink
package.

Have a nice day,  :)
-- 
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