Many thanks Emilio! Cheers Sascha On 20/06/2016 12:41, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 20/06/16 12:01, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: >> Hi Emilio, >> >>>> similarly to circulator, ariba and others, I have another Perl-based tool packaged which depends on something missing on i386: >>>> >>>> sspace/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: bowtie >>>> >>>> Would it be possible to force sspace as well as discussed before? >>>> If you need any more information please just let me know. >>> >>> Have you tried to port/build bowtie to i386 / 32 bits? It was once available >>> there. Building it there again would make your package available to more users. >> >> I am not the original maintainer of bowtie so I don't know what caused >> its current state of non-building. I might look into it but I would >> kindly ask you to be aware that it is not uncommon for this kind of >> bioinformatics software to become architecture-dependent at some point >> in its lifetime. Upstream might have decided to rely on a particular >> hardware feature starting from some new version. >> Do you see any chance to get it in at all without getting bowtie to >> build on i386? > > Yes, given this is not a regression (as sspace is a new package). Obviously > making it available on more architectures is always a good thing, but that can > happen later. > > I've added the necessary hints. This should migrate in the next britney run. > > Cheers, > Emilio >
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