Bug#1049872: FTBFS on multiple release architectures

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Emanuele,

On 2023-09-05 16:58, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> On 2023-08-28 07:42, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:29:10 +0200 Emanuele Rocca <ema at debian.org> wrote:
>>> asmjit does not build correctly on the following architectures:
>>> armel, armhf, mips64el, mipsel, s390x.
>>
>> Does this constitute an RC bug? If not, severity should be lowered.
> 
> It does, on armel and armhf the package did build successfully in the
> past. See:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=asmjit&arch=armhf
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=asmjit&arch=armel

This is news to me. Could you please point out where in Debian Policy I 
can read more about such requirement? I thought I saw packages dropping 
support for one or another release architecture without being removed 
from testing.

> Bug retitled given that meanwhile the issue has been fixed on mips64el,
> mipsel, and s390x.

This is correct, thanks.

Best wishes,
Andrius