On 30/07/16 08:54, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sorry that I've been away from my email for a while. I was also > hoping for some discussion of Emilio's point. > > على الإثنين 25 تـمـوز 2016 09:19، كتب Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: >> Hi, >> >> On 25/07/16 11:13, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >>> On 2016-07-24 23:11, Afif Elghraoui wrote: >>> >>>>> For performance reasons britney only tests installability on amd64 and >>>>> i386 (hence the message), otherwise the list would be much longer. >>>>> >>>>> A package cannot migrate if it is not installable on the test >>>>> architectures. >>>>> >>>> >>>> For the purposes of mhap, it is a package for scientific research and >>>> would probably not be usable on i386 even if it could be installed >>>> there. It requires more powerful processors than anything that is i386 >>>> that I am aware of (besides am64 CPUs posing as such, but the package >>>> works on x32 anyway). >>> >>> Maybe you want "arch:any-amd64 x32" then? >> >> I'm not sure about that. mhap is arch:all. It just happens to be >> uninstallable >> on some architectures because one of its dependencies isn't available >> everywhere. Whenever that dependency gets support for those architectures, >> then >> mhap will be installable. >> >> This isn't different to sspace, circlator, pbalign, console-setup-freebsd, >> python-pbcore, python-pbgenomicconsensus... to name a few. >> >> Maybe we should change our policy here or fix some stuff (including how >> britney >> handles arch:all packages), but we should carefully think about it and then >> be >> consistent about it. >> > > For the people who hold the view that, if a package of > architecture-independent files is not installable on i386, it should be > duplicated for each of the architectures on which it will be > installable, has this opinion taken the approval of the ftpmasters? I > don't think they would be in favor of the idea of wasting space on the > archive for this reason. > > I completely agree with Emilio, as well as Ansgar who made this point > before[1].
I have added a force-hint. Cheers, Emilio
