On Wednesday, November 5, 2025 2:43:48 PM Mountain Standard Time Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi wrote: > > Is it expected that bazaar should build > > > > for i386? > > No, Debian doesn't support i386 after Bookworms. Debian doesn’t support installing i386 as a hardware distribution, but they still support i386 packages, which can be used in chroots. https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures For example, see all of the available architectures for the most recent courier package: https://packages.debian.org/sid/courier-authdaemon This is why the test still exists. However, because it is not a release architecture, if a package does not build for i386 it isn’t a problem for the package (a RC bug will not be filed against it, nobody will complain, etc.). In general, if upstream supports i386, then we want to support it in Debian. But, if upstream doesn’t support i386 and it doesn’t build easily, we just exclude it from the Salsa CI test. Hence, the original question of if Bazaar is expected to build for i386. This isn’t something that needs to be sorted out before the initial upload of Bazaar, but it would be nice to either get it to build on i386 or exclude the Salsa CI test. > >One other think I noticed after sending the email. In debian/>copyright, > >there > > > >is a typo. > > ok, I fixed it. > > > I uploaded a new package. (the 15th upload in the mentors) By the way, when I sponsor packages, I always build directly from Salsa. I don’t tend to use the Mentors interface or any of the binaries you upload there. I do this partially because building from Salsa exposes a lot of problems with repositories that people can miss when they use Mentors. But, more importantly, building from Salsa better represents the workflow that contributors will use when they become DMs or DDs, especially when collaborating on packages, so it seems like a good idea to use it from the beginning. Mentors is a good place to find a sponsor if you do not already have a relationship with a DD, and it provides valuable feedback for a person’s first upload. So, I am not discouraging you from using it if you find it valuable, and particularly when searching for a sponsor. But for anything I am sponsoring, you don’t need to feel obligated to use Mentors. Just having it correct in Salsa and sending me an email is sufficient. I clone it from Salsa using `gbp clone` (which grabs all three branches if they exist) and build it with `gbp buildpackage` (which works if the pristine-tar branch exists, otherwise I have to use `uscan --download-current-version` and `sbuild`). I think the package is ready, so I have uploaded it to NEW. You should receive a confirmation email shortly. -- Soren Stoutner soren@debian.org
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