[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#863168: ismrmrd | Build-Depends: architecture-is-64-bit Closes: #863168 (c24406d8)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Adrian,

Am Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 06:14:06PM +0000 schrieb Adrian Bunk (@bunk):
>  >  Build-Depends:
>  >   cmake,
>  >   debhelper-compat (= 13),
>  > + architecture-is-64-bit,
> 
> > I think this is sensible anyway since we are moving away in the scientific packages from 32bit support.
> 
> This can be problematic, since half the world transitively depends on some packages like opencv, and then you might end up hard-coding architecture lists in other places to workaround the missing packages.
> 
> I'm not saying that non-trivial 32-bit breakage is usually worth fixing (or that upstream should be asked to fix it), but when it isn't broken (like here on i386) then keeping it should be the default option.

OK, do you think reopening bug #863168 and reverting this change is the
best solution?
 
> > Thanks a lot for watching me closely
> 
> I'm not particularly watching you, but the BTS sent me as submitter an email for the commit.

Just joking, sorry for missing some smiley or so.  Honestly its
relieving to know that there is a second pair of eyeballs.

Kind regards
   Andreas.

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