Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 1/20/21 8:39 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’ve come across a situation which doesn’t seem to be addressed by existing
> policies: the python-ptrace source package only ships
> architecture-independent content, but it works on a small number of
> architectures (currently, 32/64-bit x86, 32-bit ARM, 32/64-bit PPC).
> 
> As a result, the packages it builds are installable everywhere, but that’s a
> false promise since they don’t work everywhere. Would it make sense to
> convert it to an architecture-dependent package, only on those architectures
> which are really supported?

There's no python packaging specific approach.  So yes, either make it
architecture dependent, or maybe add code to the entry points (__init__.py) to
raise an ImportError on unsupported architectures?

Matthias