[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1150991: bifrost FTBFS on 32bit architectures

Helmut Grohne helmut at subdivi.de
Wed Oct 14 09:20:06 BST 2026


Source: bifrost
Version: 1.3.5-2
Tags: ftbfs patch

bifrost fails to build from source on all 32bit architectures as it
requires a 128bit integer type. I think this is ok, but these failures
are slightly unobvious and investigating them can take time to QA
people.

I appreciate if we could skip these builds (also reducing buildd
resource consumption). How about adding architecture-is-64-bit to
Build-Depends? Especially when including a comment, this would make it
very obvious. I'm attaching a patch for your convenience.

Helmut
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diff -Nru bifrost-1.3.5/debian/changelog bifrost-1.3.5/debian/changelog
--- bifrost-1.3.5/debian/changelog	2025-10-16 11:07:24.000000000 +0200
+++ bifrost-1.3.5/debian/changelog	2026-10-14 10:18:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+bifrost (1.3.5-2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Restrict building to 64bit architectures. (Closes: #-1)
+
+ -- Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi.de>  Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:18:14 +0200
+
 bifrost (1.3.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * d/watch: version=5
diff -Nru bifrost-1.3.5/debian/control bifrost-1.3.5/debian/control
--- bifrost-1.3.5/debian/control	2025-10-16 11:07:24.000000000 +0200
+++ bifrost-1.3.5/debian/control	2026-10-14 10:18:14.000000000 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
 Build-Depends:
+# Requires 128bit integer types.
+ architecture-is-64-bit,
  debhelper-compat (= 13),
  d-shlibs,
  cmake,


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