[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#571345: octave-ga: FTBFS: Unsatisfiable build-dependency: octave-communications: Depends: libhdf5-serial-1.8.3 but it is not installable

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: octave-ga
Version: 0.9.7-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-2010-02-24 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part:
> ** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), cdbs, octave-pkg-dev (>= 0.7.0)
> Build-Depends-Indep: octave-communications, octave-miscellaneous
> 
> ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> │ Install build dependencies (internal resolver)                               │
> └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
> 
> Checking for already installed source dependencies...
> debhelper: missing
> Using default version 7.4.15
> cdbs: missing
> octave-pkg-dev: missing
> Using default version 0.7.2
> octave-communications: missing
> octave-miscellaneous: missing
> Checking for source dependency conflicts...
> E: Broken packages
> Installing positive dependencies: debhelper cdbs octave-pkg-dev octave-communications octave-miscellaneous
> 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:
>   octave-communications: Depends: libhdf5-serial-1.8.3 but it is not installable or
>                                   libhdf5-1.8.3 but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages

More information:
# apt-get install  debhelper cdbs octave-pkg-dev octave-communications octave-miscellaneous libhdf5-serial-1.8.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libhdf5-serial-1.8.3 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libhdf5-serial-1.8.3 has no installation candidate
# apt-get install  debhelper cdbs octave-pkg-dev octave-communications octave-miscellaneous libhdf5-1.8.3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libhdf5-1.8.3 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 libhdf5-openmpi-1.8.4 libhdf5-mpich-1.8.4 libhdf5-lam-1.8.4
E: Package libhdf5-1.8.3 has no installation candidate

The full build log is available from:
   http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010-02-24/octave-ga_0.9.7-1_lsid64.buildlog

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at 
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on about 50 AMD64 nodes
of the Grid'5000 platform, using a clean chroot.  Internet was not
accessible from the build systems.

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