[Bug 2031221] [NEW] useless s390x binary blocking migration

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# Problem

The migration of rocm-hipamd 5.2.3-12 from mantic proposed to release is
blocked because a build for s390x is not available [1]. The rocm-hipamd
5.2.3-12 version of the package contains many bug fixes and supports a
much wider set of hardware.

# Background

All tests were disabled in the rocm-hipamd 5.2.3-7 package upload, which
allowed the s390x package to build successfully for the first time. The
tests were reenabled in the rocm-hipamd 5.2.3-9 package upload and the
s390x architecture was explicitly excluded from the build architectures
in all future uploads [2]. The HIP runtime depends on HSA support from
the AMDGPU driver that is only available on amd64, arm64 and ppc64
systems, so the s390x binaries are useless [3].

# Proposed Resolution

Remove the s390x binaries for hipcc, libamdhip64-5, libamdhip64-dev, and
libhiprtc-builtins5 from mantic to unblock migration.

# Additional Information

## Release Information

Description:	Ubuntu Mantic Minotaur (development branch)
Release:	23.10

## Package Version

hipcc:
  Installed: 5.2.3-8
  Candidate: 5.2.3-8
  Version table:
 *** 5.2.3-8 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

# References

[1]: https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html#rocm-hipamd
[2]: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/r/rocm-hipamd/changelog-5.2.3-12
[3]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.2/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/Kconfig#L6-L8

** Affects: rocm-hipamd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: update-excuse
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useless s390x binary blocking migration
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2031221
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