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Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures

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Hi,

I’ve come across a situation which doesn’t seem to be addressed by existing
policies: the python-ptrace source package only ships
architecture-independent content, but it works on a small number of
architectures (currently, 32/64-bit x86, 32-bit ARM, 32/64-bit PPC).

As a result, the packages it builds are installable everywhere, but that’s a
false promise since they don’t work everywhere. Would it make sense to
convert it to an architecture-dependent package, only on those architectures
which are really supported?

(In this specific instance, there’s an optional CPython extension which would
be interesting, so I’d switch to an architecture-dependent package for this
anyway, were I to maintain the package; but I thought this was an interesting
question in general.)

Regards,

Stephen

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Generic Python packages which don’t work on all  architectures Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-01-20 20:50 +0100
  Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2021-01-20 21:10 +0100
  Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 02:50 +0100
    Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 08:10 +0100
    Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 14:20 +0100
      Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 14:30 +0100
        Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 16:50 +0100
          Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-01-22 00:40 +0100
            Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-01-22 00:50 +0100
            Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2021-01-22 10:00 +0100
      Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on  all architectures Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2021-01-21 14:40 +0100
        Re: Generic Python packages which don’t work on all architectures Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2021-01-21 16:20 +0100

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