On Wed, 04 May 2016, Santiago Vila wrote: > Hi. In case it does not work as expected, there is also another thing > that you could do, and it is your prerrogative as package maintainer, > which is to modify "Architecture: any" in debian/control and put only > the "actually supported" architectures.
yeah, somewhat... I have been "screamed at" already though for "unnecessarily" limiting list of supported architectures. Especially here it is just a matter of fixing few bugs, not really absent ability to be ported so inline with yours comments below ;) so I would prefer not to go that route here > This would tell autobuilders not in the list that they should not try > to build the package at all, and would also limit the "all > architectures in sync" rule for unstable to testing migration > to the architectures in the list. > This would be done only as a last resort, and only if you lose > completely all hope that it will work some day, because in principle, > it is better that autobuilders try the build and fail, than they do > not even try. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
