[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1121002: libstreamvbyte: Consider disabling the build on unsupported architectures

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Wed Nov 19 13:07:10 GMT 2025


Hi,

On Wed, 2025-11-19 at 13:02 +0100, Florent 'Skia' Jacquet wrote:
> Ubuntu is currently disabling the build on s390x, and I've also
> seen that some other more obscure arches are not building in Debian.
> Upstream clearly states in its README that big endian processors are
> currently not supported. [1]
> 
> Would you consider disabling the build on unsupported architectures,
> so that downstream distributions can avoid carrying a delta?

Please don't. There is a pseudo package for exactly this purpose called

	architecture-is-little-endian

Please just build-depend on that.

Thanks,
Adrian

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