On 08/04/16 09:51, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > > > 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?
I have forced both packages in. Let's see how that goes in the next britney run. Cheers, Emilio
