Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:42 PM Ole Streicher wrote:
> But this is also the case for all packages which implicitly depend on
> other packages which are not available on some architectures.
This is true, but it doesn't make for a good user experience.
> Generally, arch:all packages depend on a lot of architecture dependent
> packages, and unless one resolves the whole dependency chain, there is
> no way to check whether a package is actually installable.
The buildds have installability checking for build-deps (IIRC using
dose), so some sort of QA service could be doing these sort of checks
more cheaply than installing arch:all packages outside of amd64. Also
unfortunately piuparts.d.o doesn't yet support multiple arches, but
there is probably some coverage of arch:all packages on debci, not
sure if it tests them on multiple arches though.
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bye,
pabs
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