Hi Andreas, > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:45:10AM +0100, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: >> I remember you had recently raised a discussion about circlator not >> being able to migrate to testing because of dependencies missing for >> i386. It now looks like ariba is stuck in the same situation [1]. It is >> also quite likely that this is probably going to be a common problem for >> any Python/Perl/... tool that depends on something like bwa, bowtie2 or >> spades, for example. This is a combination which I could imagine >> wouldn't be too uncommon, at least in our group. >> >> In the ML thread, Ansgar mentioned a manual override that would get the >> transition going in such cases [2] but I haven't been able to find out >> how this was finally resolved for circlator -- could you probably point >> me in the right direction? > > I've not checked circulator but IMHO a possible workaround would be to > "fake" an "Architectur: any" package and put the tool that is needed > also inside Build-Depends so the autobuilders do not even try to create > a package for this. Not nice but the advantage would be that we can > control this on our own.
True, thanks for the suggestion. > But I admit I'd prefer a "proper" solution in any case. Indeed. As circlator seems to have made it to testing white still being arch:all [1], I'd still be curious how to achieve the same for ariba. And I'm also interested to know whether whatever solution was found will stick after the next upload... Best wishes Sascha [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/circlator.git/tree/debian/control -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.