Bug#894488: release.debian.org: Please let mongodb transition to testing; i386 is not built anymore

[Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org>]

Hi Emilio,

On 13:35 Sat 31 Mar     , Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 31/03/18 08:57, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Release Team,
> > 
> > Following upstream's decision to drop 32-bit support, the mongodb source 
> 
> Was it so hard to maintain?

Unfortunately, yes. We maintained i386 support for 3.2, despite upstream 
dropping it. However the new storage engine, Wiredtiger, was written 
from scratch for 64-bit architectures only and never supported i386. We 
got away with setting MMapv1 as the default engine for i386 in 3.2, but 
that also broke in 3.4, making me think that it probably did not make 
much sense to continue supporting i386 ourselves.

> > as of 3.4 no longer builds an i386 package. AFAICT, this breaks 
> > britney's  rules for arch:all -> arch:any dependencies and does not let 
> > the package migrate to testing.
> > 
> > Could you please let mongodb through manually?
> 
> force-hint added, it should migrate in the next britney run.

Thanks!

Apollon