Re: regarding filtering architectures

This is a great tip, thanks!

I've pushed commits that use the provisions from the
architecture-properties package to clean up d/control for the following
packages:

abyss
bazel-bootstrap
bowtie
bowtie2
canu
diamond-aligner
gmap
jellyfish
kallisto
mmseqs2
pbcopper
python-skbio
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 9:49 PM Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Paul has sent me a valuable hint.  I totally missed this information
> but will try to fix all our packages that are only available for 64 bit
> architectures according to this.  I'm just bouncing this information
> to the list in case I'm not the only one who missed this simple option
> to exclude 32bit.
>
> Kind regards
>     Andreas.
>
> Am Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 07:28:57AM +0100 schrieb Paul Gevers:
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > I just spotted two of you packages [1] where you stopped supporting 32
> bits.
> > I'm not going to judge on that (I don't even look at the reason), but
> > instead of hard-coding the list of architectures, could you use a
> > Build-Dependens on architecture-is-64-bit (from
> > https://packages.debian.org/unstable/architecture-properties).
> >
> > Rationale: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/09/msg00105.html
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > [1]
> https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/e/emboss/control-6.6.0dfsg-13
> > [2]
> https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/r/r-bioc-rhtslib/control-2.4.1dfsg-2
> >
> > Paul
>
>
>
>
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