[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: sspace: arch:all package with missing i386 dependencies



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
> 

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


Reply to: