[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#863929: Bug#863929: falcon: FTBFS: Test failures ("Task Node(0-rawreads/job_0001) failed with exit-code=256")

[Afif Elghraoui]

على الجمعـة  2 حزيران 2017 ‫15:40، كتب Adrian Bunk:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 03:52:51PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
>> According to the reproducible build history [1], this package has FTBFS on
>> i386 for a long time.
>>
>> It also never successfully built on i386 in Ubuntu [2].
>>
>> If there are no objections, I will file a bug requesting removal of the i386
>> binary package.
>> ...
> 
> It always failed on the reproducible builds, but even after the first 
> failures there the build succeeded more than once on i386.
> 
> It does therefore not even make sense to remove the i386 binary since
> it would be expected that any new upload (including after the release) 
> would re-introduce the binary.
> 

It actually does not even make sense to have this package available for
a 32-bit architecture since, for any actual use (de novo genome
assembly), it will require more memory than would be addressable on a
32-bit system. It's not really worth the time and effort to debug that.
I don't know of an alias like !32bit for the Architecture field in
debian/control to exclude that.

regards
Afif

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