[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#639186: octave-bim: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: octave-pkg-dev (>= 0.7.1)

[Colin Watson]

tags 639186 patch
user ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
usertags 639186 ubuntu-patch oneiric
thanks

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:16:38PM +0200, Mònica Ramírez Arceda wrote:
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.
> 
> Relevant part:
> > ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> > │ Install octave-bim build dependencies (apt-based resolver)                   │
> > └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
> > 
> > Installing build dependencies
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  sbuild-build-depends-octave-bim-dummy : Depends: octave-pkg-dev (>= 0.7.1) but it is not going to be installed
> > E: Broken packages

I think this has the same cause as #639187.  With the same rationale, I
suggest this workaround:

  * Add explicit build-dependency on libhdf5-openmpi-dev to work around apt
    confusion when resolving dependencies of gmsh and octave3.2-headers
    (closes: #639186, LP: #831386).

diff -Nru octave-bim-1.0.1/debian/control octave-bim-1.0.1/debian/control
--- octave-bim-1.0.1/debian/control	2011-04-14 21:08:22.000000000 +0100
+++ octave-bim-1.0.1/debian/control	2011-09-14 11:52:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Debian Octave Group <pkg-octave-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Thomas Weber <tweber at debian.org>
 DM-Upload-Allowed: yes
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), cdbs, octave-pkg-dev (>= 0.7.1)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), cdbs, octave-pkg-dev (>= 0.7.1), libhdf5-openmpi-dev
 Build-Depends-Indep: octave-msh (>=0.1.1-2)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.1
 Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/bim

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]