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The latest release of regina-normal (5.0) uses the C++ type std::exception_ptr,
which appears to be missing on armel.  As a result the current package in sid
fails to build on armel.

See #790896 for a similar instances of this problem, or
https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2013/12/msg00000.html
for discussion on this and related issues.

This is a specialist package for mathematical research, it has no reverse
dependencies other than the science-mathematics metapackage (which recommends
it), and I would not be at all surprised if it has no active users on armel
at all.  Moreover, it will be difficult to rewrite the upstream code to avoid
use of std::exception_ptr entirely.  Therefore I would like to request that
regina-normal be removed from armel, so that regina-normal can transition
to stretch.

Thanks - Ben.

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