[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#956580: aoflagger: boost update makes aoflagger uninstallable

[Giacomo Mulas]

Package: aoflagger
Version: 2.15.0-1+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

the recent update of boost libraries to version 1.67.0-17+b1, in particular
probably of libboost-python1.67.0, apparently broke some dependency of
aoflagger, forcing its removal and making it uninstallable.  I suspect it is
a mere packaging problem but cannot investigate it in detail, since I need
aoflagger and thus pinned the version of boost till this is sorted out.  It
is even possible that this is a problem on the side of boost libraries, if
suitable please feel free to contact their maintainer about this.  Or it may
be due to similar problems simultaneously making libcasa-python3-4
uninstallable as well.

Thanks in advance, best regards
Giacomo Mulas


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (401, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.5.13-jak (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.utf8), LANGUAGE=it_IT,en_EN (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages aoflagger depends on:
ii  libaoflagger0                                       2.15.0-1+b1
ii  libatkmm-1.6-1v5                                    2.28.0-2
ii  libboost-date-time1.67.0                            1.67.0-17
ii  libboost-python1.67.0 [libboost-python1.67.0-py37]  1.67.0-17
ii  libboost-system1.67.0                               1.67.0-17
ii  libc6                                               2.30-4
ii  libcairomm-1.0-1v5                                  1.12.2-4
ii  libcasa-casa4                                       3.2.1-4+b2
ii  libcasa-ms4                                         3.2.1-4+b2
ii  libcasa-tables4                                     3.2.1-4+b2
ii  libgcc-s1                                           10-20200411-1
ii  libglibmm-2.4-1v5                                   2.64.2-1
ii  libgtkmm-3.0-1v5                                    3.24.2-1
ii  libpython3.8                                        3.8.2-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5                                   2.10.2-1
ii  libstdc++6                                          10-20200411-1

aoflagger recommends no packages.

Versions of packages aoflagger suggests:
ii  aoflagger-dev  2.15.0-1+b1

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