[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#659808: libsbml5-octave: uninstallable on ia64

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ivo,

I'd (strongly) vote for simply droping this useless depends.  If I would
have been your sponsor I have worked out together with you solving these
issues:

$ lintian libsbml_5.2.0-1.dsc 
W: libsbml source: package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc libsbml5-octave depends
W: libsbml source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends libsbml5-dbg
W: libsbml source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends libsbml5-dev
W: libsbml source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-arch
W: libsbml source: debian-rules-missing-recommended-target build-indep

Hints:

  Line 1: Solving this solves this bug
  Line 2+3: Try `lintian -i libsbml_5.2.0-1.dsc` to get hints if
            unsure what to do
  Line 4+5: I usually recommend to use short dh syntax which cares
            for *a* *lot* of your manual tweaking including fixing
            the two lintian problems.
            Feel free to ask on list for further advise if you have
            no idea what to do.

Further hints about handling config.status + config.guess:
   Packages autotools-dev + dh-autoreconf are your friend (example usage
   is for instance in package exonerate in SVN)

Kind regards and please do not hesitate to ask on the list in case you
might need any help.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 08:56:47PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Package: libsbml5-octave
> Version: 5.2.0-1
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> libsbml's control file contains the following in the libsbml5-octave
> stanza:
> 
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
>  ${misc:Depends},
>  octave3.2,
>  libc6 (>=2.4)
> 
> Aside from the last entry being redundant (it will get added via
> shlib:Depends if needed) and there being no obvious reason for its
> inclusion, it's also broken on architectures where the C library runtime
> package isn't libc6 - e.g. ia64, kfreebsd-* and hurd-i386.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> 
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