على الجمعـة 8 نيسـان 2016 00:17، كتب Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: > On 08/04/16 07:16, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >> [Please Cc me; I'm not subscribed] >> I am trying to prevent python-pysam and its reverse-dependencies from >> being removed from testing. The latest release of python-pysam can not >> yet build on i386, and it cannot migrate to testing because it would >> make it's arch: all reverse-dependencies uninstallable. The previous >> upstream release has an RC bug and I don't want any of these packages to >> be removed from testing because of this. > > So this used to build on i386 but those binaries have been removed.
Right. > I suppose we > could force this in. > Please and thank you! >> Another package is circlator, which is arch: all and has some >> dependencies that cannot currently build on i386. Its testing migration >> has been stalled for over two weeks because it's not installable on i386. > > That sounds like it's a regression, i.e. the version in testing is currently > installable on i386 whereas the version in sid isn't. That's why it doesn't > migrate. This one's actually a new package and has never been in testing before. > We could force it as well, making this package uninstallable on i386 > (just as if it was arch:any and you had removed the i386 binaries). > > Is that what you want? Yes, that's right. > Is it not possible to fix that rdep? > The dependencies? I just checked--- one of them (bwa) is specifically limited to (kfree-bsd-)amd64. According to an older changelog entry (0.7.5a-2), this is because of a requirement for SSE2. That is from an older release and I suppose the situation could have changed, but is it necessary to hold back the package because of this? Thanks and regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name
