Hi, Steve,

On November 29, 2017 12:50:55 AM EST, Steve Langasek 
<steve.langa...@canonical.com> wrote:
>In Ubuntu, we observed that the canu package was not releasable because
>it
>generates per-architecture binary packages with a transitive dependency
>on
>libssw-java, which is only available on amd64.
>
>To work around this issue, I have added an "artificial" build
>dependency on
>mhap to the canu package in Ubuntu, so that the package will not build
>on
>architectures where mhap is not available.
>
>This problem also affects canu in Debian, and is the reason that canu
>has
>not migrated to Debian testing;

Yes, as I saw in https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2017/10/msg00239.html

> so I would suggest applying this patch
>in
>Debian as well.
>

Thanks for your concern. I did not see much interest on this package and so was 
not really interested in a workaround. I believe this is primarily an issue 
with wanna-build queuing the package for building on those architectures to 
begin with [1].

regards
Afif

1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-wb-team/2017/10/msg00009.html

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