XPost: linux.debian.ports.arm

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: cinnamon@packages.debian.org, debian-arm@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 + src:cinnamon
User: ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove
User: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
Usertags: armel
Control: block 1081039 by -1
Control: block 1081040 by -1

The cinnamon binary package depends on cjs, which depends on mozjs128,
which is no longer compatible with armel due to its lack of lock-free
atomics.

Please remove cinnamon_*_armel.deb from unstable, so that the old
version of cjs can be removed (I'll report a separate ftp.debian.org bug
for that), so that the new version of cjs can migrate to testing. This
will allow us to remove the obsolete mozjs115 from the archive.

Please note that this will make cinnamon-desktop-environment
(Architecture: all) uninstallable on armel, and will make arc-theme (Architecture: all) unbuildable on armel.

I believe those conditions are allowed by the ftp team's policies, but
if they are not, it might be necessary for the Cinnamon maintainers to
convert cinnamon-desktop-environment's metapackages to be Architecture:
any with Build-Depends on cjs (>= 128) so that they will no longer be
built on armel, similar to how the GNOME team handled the equivalent
situation with gjs, gnome-shell and meta-gnome3.

Thanks,
smcv (not a Cinnamon maintainer)

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