[Pkg-julia-devel] Bug#799036: openspecfun: please build everywhere

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Benefit of targeting any arch instead of known succesful ones is to help 
porters identify where work is needed - a.k.a. not hide problems, as 
we're all abiding to in our Social Contract.

You need not be concerned about FTBFS on strange archs affecting the 
package migrating to testing: Only FTBFS on archs already in testing are 
treated as severe - i.e. only regressions count.

Only if this package lacks a proper testsuite and you know that builds 
on some archs even though technically succeeding will produce broken 
code.  If that's the case I urge you to make it more visible e.g. to 
porters - one way could be to add arch checks in debian/rules that 
checks for build architecture and fails with a suitably descriptive 
error message that porters can see in build logs for those archs.

Hope that helps,

 - Jonas

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