Package: cups
Version: 2.3.0-7
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu focal ubuntu-patch

Dear maintainers,

In Ubuntu, we are in the process of moving the i386 architecture to a
compatibility-only layer on amd64.  We are keeping cups on i386 because
libcups2 is needed by various 32-bit only binaries, but the cups server
packages built from this source have dependencies on other packages that are
not being kept as part of the compatibility library set
(cups-filters-core-drivers).

We would like to drop the cups and cups-core-drivers packages rather than
keeping them around in the Ubuntu archive and uninstallable.  Would you
please consider applying the attached patch, or something like it, to omit
building this binary package on Ubuntu?

Thanks for considering,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                   https://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                                     [email protected]
diff -Nru cups-2.3.0/debian/rules cups-2.3.0/debian/rules
--- cups-2.3.0/debian/rules     2019-11-06 01:57:40.000000000 -0600
+++ cups-2.3.0/debian/rules     2019-12-22 11:10:53.000000000 -0600
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 export DEB_BUILD_MAINT_OPTIONS = hardening=+all,-pie
 export DEB_LDFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -Wl,--as-needed
 
+ifeq ($(shell dpkg-vendor --is Ubuntu && echo yes) $(DEB_HOST_ARCH), yes i386)
+   skip_packages = -Ncups -Ncups-core-drivers
+endif
+
 # The build system uses only DSOFLAGS but not LDFLAGS to build some libraries.
 # Add LDFLAGS to enable (hardening) build flags.
 export DSOFLAGS = $(shell dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS)
@@ -247,3 +251,9 @@
 override_dh_installpam:
        dh_installpam -pcups-daemon --name=cups
        dh_installpam --remaining-packages
+
+override_dh_builddeb:
+       dh_builddeb ${skip_packages}
+
+override_dh_gencontrol:
+       dh_gencontrol ${skip_packages}

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