[Debian-med-packaging] broken package removal for some architectures

Sascha Steinbiss satta at tetrinetsucht.de
Tue Dec 8 16:56:14 UTC 2015


Hi Andreas,

> Confirming the described procedure.

Great, thanks for the quick reply.

Cheers
Sascha

> On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 02:31:04PM +0000, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> just wanting to quickly confirm: if I find out that a package does not work as intended on a target architecture (here sparc64 due to memory alignment issues) and upstream is unlikely to work these out, it is OK to just remove this arch in the control file, upload a new version and then request the removal of the broken old debs for this arch from the archive?
>> 
>> That’s what I have seen was done for the recent HMMER issue but since I have encountered such a case myself now I just wanted to check this is the usual way to go. 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Sascha
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