[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#852169: healpix-cxx: Please remove libcfitsio version mismatch warning

[Leo P. Singer]

> On Jan 22, 2017, at 3:05 PM, Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Leo,
> 
> On 22.01.2017 20:06, Leo P. Singer wrote:
>> I was hoping to do another release anyway to address Bug#793248:
>> "healpy: change of type in system_error might break with GCC-5"
>> (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793248). I put
>> some changes on master for the gcc5 transition:
> 
> I think that we can't do this in the moment: we are in a transition
> freeze since november, and that means that we can' rename a shared
> library for the moment. I however think that this is also not needed at
> all -- the previous library was already built with gcc-6. The only
> package the depends on libhealpix-cxx0 is healpy, and this had an upload
> end of last year (so, it is already built agains this library version).
> Therefore, you should revert the file name change, and just close the
> bug. It is already fixed automatically.
> 
> The other problem (which was the cause for this bug) is not just
> recompiling against the new libcfitsio, but to remove the version check
> for cfitsio completely: Since version handling is done within the Debian
> packaging system, the library doesn't need to check it. In
> fitshandle.cc, at the end, there is
> 
> if (v_header!=v_library)
>  cerr << endl << "WARNING: version mismatch between CFITSIO header (v"
>       << dataToString(v_header*0.001) << ") and linked library (v"
>       << dataToString(v_library*0.001) << ")." << endl << endl;
> 
> which should just be removed in a patch.


Hi Ole,

OK, will do. Given that I haven't uploaded healpix-cxx_3.30.0-5 or healpix-cxx_3.30.0-6, do you think it is OK to do a force push to git to remove the -5 and -6 versions?

Leo