Hi,

The sift 6.2.1 upstream tarball contains a bin/web/ directory with five
prebuilt x86-64 executables:

  bin/web/allowed_subst_html
  bin/web/process_alignment
  bin/web/seqs_to_matrixweb
  bin/web/seqs_to_msf
  bin/web/seqs_to_msf_web

src/Makefile doesn't build them (their sources are in src/, but they are not
in BIN), and debian/rules installs the whole bin/ tree with
"dh_install ... -Xlinux -Xsolaris bin", so these upstream binaries end up in
/usr/lib/sift/bin/web/ in the amd64 package rather than being built from
source. Nothing in the package uses them (they are web-server helpers).

Since sift is in non-free and only built on amd64 in Debian (#987606), this
goes unnoticed there, but on every other architecture the build fails in
dh_strip:

  objcopy: Unable to recognise the architecture of the input file
  `debian/sift/usr/lib/sift/bin/web/seqs_to_msf_web'

Ubuntu builds sift on all architectures, so we hit this; the previous
version (4.0.3b) didn't have bin/web.

The attached change excludes bin/web from the installation, which fixes the
build on other architectures and stops shipping binaries that weren't built
from source. The only change in the amd64 package is that /usr/lib/sift/bin/web/
is gone. (An alternative would be to build those tools from src/, if they are
considered useful, or to repack the tarball without them.)

Ubuntu upload: sift 6.2.1-2ubuntu1.

Thanks,
Sebastien Bacher

Hello,

Bug #1150426 in sift reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/sift/-/commit/b090480880e23a5ce15ffbd44aa9b997f966efb1

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1150426

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sift, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1150426@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> (supplier of updated sift package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:59:20 +0200
Source: sift
Architecture: source
Version: 6.2.1+ds-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Closes: 986200 1150426
Changes:
 sift (6.2.1+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Andreas Tille ]
   * Fix Homepage
   * d/watch:
      - Version 5
      - Fix
   * Remove all binaries from source
   * Remove now unneeded lintian-overrides
   * Use Debian packaged libblimps
   * Use BLIMPS data from /usr/share/blimps provided by blimps-utils
   * Add autopkgtest
     Closes: #986200
   * cme fix dpkg-control
   * Cleanup docs
 .
   [ Sebastien Bacher ]
   * Do not install prebuild binaries from bin/web
     Closes: #1150426
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