Hi Andrius,

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 04:52:01PM +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> On 2024-04-16 15:04, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> > I suppose you meant "RM" instead of "BTS" here. Thanks for filing a report.
> 
> No, I meant filing a BTS bug, which I did file as #1069098 in order to keep
> track of the issue in previous Debian releases too.

Right.

> > OTOH, does anyone actually use s390x for any med team package? If not, can 
> > we
> > consider to add this too along with other 32-bit archs to our policy?
> 
> Personally, I do not like the idea of deny-listing architectures in team
> policy. But I am not an uploader of emboss, I merely care for it as a
> dependency for oscar4.

Sure, but if there is no user for those packages at all on s390x, would that not
translate to:

a) extra maintenance
b) more build cycles / load on porter machines / more cost so on?

> I would suggest the following course of action for emboss:
> 
> 1. Add a build-time test calling emboss executable(s). This way builds will
> fail on s390x (and possibly other architectures) until #1069098 is fixed.
> 
> 2. RM emboss for s390x without excluding s390x from build architectures.
> 
> This way emboss will be able to migrate and there will be no action needed
> if/when #1069098 is fixed.

Makes sense to me.

> What do you think?
> 
> Andrius
> 
Best,
Nilesh

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