There is no actual reason to exclude Gutenprint from 32-bit systems. The exclusion on Debian is most probably lack of patience of the maintainer.
The Snap package continues to build on armhf, there seems to be no upstream change having made this package 64-bit only. We only need to remove any artificial exclusion added by the Debian maintainer. Not having included this package in 32-bit architectures does not break printing in general, but drops the support for many printers, especially Epson and Canon inkjet printers and dye-sub photo printers of all manufacturers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gutenprint in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2081090 Title: gutenprint FTBFS due to 64-bit restriction Status in gutenprint package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The FTBFS[0] report shows an issue for gutenprint: The following packages have unmet dependencies: sbuild-build-depends-main-dummy : Depends: architecture-is-64-bit but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. apt-get failed. E: Package installation failed The problem is that the package now no longer builds for armhf[1], which is 32-bit. This appears to have been an intentional change by Debian: gutenprint (5.3.4.20220624T01008808d602-2) unstable; urgency=medium * do not build this package on 32bit architectures anymore Closes: #1064088 Closes: #1064089 There was no patch attached to #1064089, so I can not reproduce the problems mentioned in #1064088. I am fed up with this poorly done transition, so I won't spend more time with this. Sorry 32bit people. -- Thorsten Alteholz <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:10:00 +0200 The transition referenced in the changelog is the time_t transition performed late last cycle; presumably then reversing this change in Ubuntu would merely exchange this FTBFS for a different one. (Perhaps one avenue of solution would be to create the requested time_t patch for #1064088?) The question is then if the armhf binary for gutenprint was deleted from the archive, would that result in other issues within the printing stack? 0: https://people.canonical.com/~ginggs/ftbfs-report/test-rebuild-20240912-oracular-oracular.html#ubuntu-server-pkgset 1: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gutenprint/5.3.4.20220624T01008808d602-3/+build/28712797 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gutenprint/+bug/2081090/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
