Please remove 32-bit (armhf, i386 and powerpc) binaries

[Graham Inggs]

As per kissplice 2.2.1-2 changelog below, kissplice is now built for 64-bit architectures only.
Please remove 32-bit (armhf, i386 and powerpc) binaries built previously.

kissplice (2.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ David Parsons ]
  * Restrict architectures to 64Bit only

  [ Andreas Tille ]
  * cme fix dpkg-control

 -- Andreas Tille <email address hidden> Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:03:43 +0200

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

$ reverse-depends src:kissplice
Reverse-Recommends
==================
* med-bio (for kissplice)

please could you update med-bio?

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

So med-bio is a metapackage that "will install Debian packages related to molecular biology, structural biology and bioinformatics for use in life sciences".

It recently (2015-03-29) had an update in Debian unstable. Do you want that sync'd, and/or, do you want it to only recommend kissplice for 64-bit architectures?

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

med-bio is built from the debian-med source package

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

it should be merged, then regenerated.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

doko: I don't follow why we are updating debian-med and how it relates to removing the 32-bit binary packages from kissplice, but I regenerated the control files by running make and it went and fetched some files from the vivid archive.

I'm attaching the debian-ubuntu and ubuntu-ubuntu debdiffs.
Let me know if this is OK to upload.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

On 04/04/2015 12:44 PM, Graham Inggs wrote:
> doko: I don't follow why we are updating debian-med and how it relates
> to removing the 32-bit binary packages from kissplice

we don't remove packages from the archive which are still referenced by other
packages and then become uninstallable. You can check this yourself with
reverse-depends and reverse-depends -b.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

doko: I'm not proposing we remove kissplice from the archive entirely, only the 32-bit binaries (armhf, i386 and powerpc).
The med-bio package (and now the med-cloud package too) recommends (not depends on) kissplice.

Are you saying we need something like this in the control file?
Recommends: kissplice [amd64 arm64 ppc64el]

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

I've just tested in a Jessie i386 virtual machine.
Running 'apt-get install med-bio' listed kissplice as a recommended package, but no attempt was made to install it, and no errors were generated.

It seems it is OK if there are recommended packages that are not available for every architecture.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Yeah, updating med-bio would be a good thing to do for cleanliness, but it's not a blocker since it's only Recommends.

Removing packages from vivid:
        kissplice 2.1.0-1 in vivid armhf
        kissplice 2.1.0-1 in vivid i386
        kissplice 2.1.0-1 in vivid powerpc
Comment: only built on 64-bit architectures as of 2.2.1-2; LP: #1432576
Remove [y|N]? y
3 packages successfully removed.