Bug#766769: nmu: beast-mcmc_1.8.0-1

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org

Hello,

as written on debian-mentors I was wondering why beast-mcmc does not
migrate.  Niels recommended that I should file a bug which I'm doing
hereby.  Remark:  In addition what Niels said below I would like to
mention that one of the binary packages is actually amd64 only:

  Package: libnucleotidelikelihoodcore0
  Architecture: amd64

I have no idea whether this might be the problem or the solution.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On 2014-10-25 13:00, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=beast-mcmc
> 
> says:
> 
>   beast-mcmc/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libnucleotidelikelihoodcore0 (>= 1.8.0-1) 
> 
> but I have asked ftpmaster for removal of beast-mcmc from arch i386 and
> packages.debian.org says it is only for amd64.  Any idea how to enable
> the migration?  I guess there might be some remainings from former i386
> versions - but where?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>      Andreas.
> 

Being an arch:all package, it will appear on all architectures.  Britney
uses i386 as the architecture to determine whether an arch:all package
is installable or not.

Please file a bug against release.debian.org requesting assistence for
this special case[1] (explaining the situation).  The alternative is to
make beast-mcmc an arch:amd64 package.  In the given case, it might make
sense...

~Niels

[1] I believe it needs a "force-hint", but I leave the final judgement
to the other members of the RT, who has more experience with this kind
of special case.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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