Hi, [arch-specific removals]
Yes, but we'd also need more scalable infrastructure for that -- and that is where a dedicated exclusion mechanism can provide a benefit over just creating unfulfillable build dependencies.
On 8/15/26 21:54, Adrian Bunk wrote:
wanna-build is currently doing this ~ 5 times per hour for all 20 architectures.
The huge number of packages with unfulfillable dependencies is just annoying in the buildd statistics, it's not a performance issue, correct.
It is not helpful when you are inventing claims like "we'd also need more scalable infrastructure" that are simply wrong.
What we don't have is infrastructure for automatic removal of packages that are no longer built, because we can't easily tell why the package is not built on an architecture -- missing build dependencies are specifically a soft failure.
Instead, we're filing individual bugs on ftp.debian.org, and that is not scalable.
Simon
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