[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#809592: plplot: FTBFS: x00a.adb:30:05: file "plplot_auxiliary.ads" not found -> Removing ADA and D support?

[Axel Beckert]

Control: tag -1 + pending

Hi Ole,

thanks for the review of my plan and patch.

Ole Streicher wrote:
> >But I'm not sure if that's what we want and I'm especially not sure of
> >the implications for other packages (which might depend on plplot's
> >ADA or D support).
> 
> At least, "apt-rdepends -r " does not show dependencies for
> libplplot-ada1 and libplplot-d.

Additionally, I've also checked "apt-rbdepends libplplot-ada1-dev" and
"apt-rbdepends libplplot-d". The former yielded nothing, the latter
found this:

~ → apt-rbdepends libplplot-d
Package: cl-plplot
Package: gnudatalanguage
Package: psfex
Package: scamp

But these were all false positives (checked with "fgrep --color") as
apt-rbdepends seems to do substring matching and all cases were
dependencies on libplplot-dev, matching without the "ev" at the end.

> Therefore, I would support removing them until there is a fix for
> them.

Ok, I'll prepare an NMU based on the patch I posted in my last mail.

> There are quite a few packages directly or indirectly depending on
> plplot, so it would be worth to make compromises to get it working
> again.

I've just re-read
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu
and it seems as if I had more restrictive rules in mind.

Since this RC bug is open for about 6 weeks now without maintainer
reaction, a direct (0-day) NMU is allowed according to these rules. So
I'll probably upload directly to get all the plplot reverse
dependencies back into testing as soon as possible.

		Regards, Axel
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