Thank you for the information, Roberto, that is something I will try. It does not give me a happy feeling to reduce the number of architectures that BibleTime runs on. But I realize, now, that this is something beyond our control. It's upstream's choice to use a dependency not available on all architectures.
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 at 15:22 Roberto C. Sánchez <robe...@debian.org> wrote: > That page says that there is no bibletime build for armel, mips, > mips64el, ppc64el, and s390x. The reason there is no build on those > architectures is because one of the build dependencies > (qtwebengine5-dev) cannot be installed on those archictures. > > Looking at the debian/control file for qtwebengine-opensource-src (the > source package), this is how qtwebengine5-dev is declared: > > Package: qtwebengine5-dev > Architecture: amd64 arm64 armhf i386 mipsel > > So, the solution would be to update bibletime so that instead of > "Architecture: any", it matches the architecture list of > qtwebengine5-dev. > > That said, bibletime-data is "Architecture: all" and I am not sure if > changing the list of valid architectures for bibletime should result in > a change to bibletime-data. Otherwise you might end up with > bibletime-data on architectures for which bibletime itself is not > available. That is, unless the archive software does not include > "Architecture: all" packages in architectures for which no binary > packages are produced from a given source package. > > That is probably something to ask on debian-devel before moving forward. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:49:49PM +0000, Teus Benschop wrote: > > The package "bibletime" is not moving from sid to testing. > > It has excuses for not moving there. > > [1]https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=bibletime > > I am not sure about how to go about this? What is the best approach > to fix > > the excuses, or to work around the excuses? The goal is to move the > > "bibletime" package to testing. > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=bibletime > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pkg-crosswire-devel mailing list > > Pkg-crosswire-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-crosswire-devel > > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-crosswire-devel mailing list > Pkg-crosswire-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-crosswire-devel >
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