[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#960218: Bug#960218: librust-packed-simd+sleef-sys-dev is no longer installable on armel/mips64el/mipsel/s390x

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 09:29:23PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> 
> > 2. file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for the removal of
> >     rust-packed-simd on armel/mips64el/mipsel/s390x
> That isn't really a workable option. It would just push the problem down the line to other packages. Taken to it's conclusion, solving this through the removal request route would mean removing firefox.

Where are you seeing firefox depending on it in any way?

Also note that librust-packed-simd+sleef-sys-dev cannot be salvaged in 
any case.

> Also because there is only a binary dependency and not a build-dependency the next upload would undo the removal.
>...

This is a good point.

cu
Adrian