Re: Dropping an architecture from a package

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

Ian Wienand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of my packages (numactl) has dropped support for two
> architectures.  I would very much like the new package to make it into
> testing, but it of course fails the up-to-date on previous
> architectures rule.  I thought if I had removed the architectures the
> scripts would notice, but they don't seem to have [1].
> 
> http://www.debian.org/devel/testing says what I should do if I have
> FTBFS, but not so much what to do if I deliberately dropped it.  Do
> you bug release managers directly, or file a bug somewhere, or send
> something to a mailing list?

File a removal request against package ftp.debian.org.


Thiemo