acpica-tools 20230628-1 removed big-endian support

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

In Debian acpica-tools 20230628-1 removed big-endian support.

We have no relevant reverse dependencies on s390x and therefore can easily drop the package on this architecture. (see comments below)

$ reverse-depends src:acpica-unix -a source
Reverse-Build-Depends-Indep
===========================
* bochs (for acpica-tools)

Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* edk2 (for iasl)
* seabios (for acpica-tools)
* seabios (for iasl)
* virtualbox (for acpica-tools)
* virtualbox-hwe (for acpica-tools)
* xen (for iasl)

$ reverse-depends src:acpica-unix
Reverse-Depends
===============
* dptfxtract [amd64] (for acpica-tools)
* hw-probe (for acpica-tools)

Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

@ivan.hu

Building hw-probe on acpica-tools could easily be dropped.
But dropping seabios and EDK II on s390x may have implications concerning running x86 VMs on s390x.
Maybe reintroducing the dropped big-endian patches in Ubuntu would be the right way forward for us.

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

edk2, hw-probe, and seabios binary packages are marked as 'Architecture: all' so they are only built on amd64.

xen binary packages are only built for amd64, armhf, arm64.

virtualbox and virtualbox-hwe are only built for amd64.

bochs binary packages are marked as 'Architecture: any'.

This leaves us only with the bochs package being affected.

[Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron)]

For bochs acpica-tools is only referenced in Build-Depends-Indep. So it is not needed to build the s390x binary packages as the architecture independent packages will be built on amd64.

So let us close this bug report as invalid.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Re-opened and assigned archive-admins to remove the s390x build to unblock the proposed migration.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removing packages from noble:
 acpica-tools 20200925-8 in noble s390x
Comment: ANAIS
1 package successfully removed.