Please take care in that case that the reverse-recommend on the package
all drop their references, so that the package is removed on upgrade on
armhf and that users don't end up with abandoned old versions of
gutenprint on their systems.

-- 
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:
  Triaged

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

Reply via email to