Hello,

tuxonice-userui is currently packaged for:
  i386 ia64 powerpc ppc64 amd64

When I saw someone was using TuxOnIce on ARM[1], I wondered if the architecture 
could be changed to linux-any and I prepared a patch[2]

However, my sponsor disagrees because such change should only be done after 
knowing it actually works on the added architecture, either by testing or 
asking upstream.

I'm just so convinced to be right that I seek another opinion, so that I can 
move on.

Originally, the architecture was 'any' and it was changed because of bug 
#389325 (FTBFS). Later, the problematic source file was removed so I first see 
no reason not to revert a change that was only done because of this.

For the majority of (*-)any packages, I think upstream is unable to answer for 
something else that i386/amd64. Maybe also arm/powerpc, but for the other 
architectures, there are so few users. So by default, it looks like Debian 
would just check it builds.

I searched a little through Git histories and the ML and could not find 
anything architecture-specific code.  It seems that TOI is supposed to work on 
any machines for which classical hibernation works.

Personally, I only use TOI on amd64 and I could wait someone opens a bug to 
extend the list of archs. The mentioned ARM user may not even use the userland 
part. I thought that such change would be better for Debian.

Julien

[1] 
http://lists.tuxonice.net/pipermail/tuxonice-users/2014-September/001370.html
[2] 
http://jmuchemb.eu/tuxonice-userui.git/commit/0739e407413822cc4f1e350254d38bf33f5f59f0?js=1
    (plus 
http://jmuchemb.eu/tuxonice-userui.git/blob/HEAD:/debian/changelog?js=1 for the 
added changelog entry)


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