[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#956578: libcasa-python3-4: package became uninstallable with update of libboost-python1.67.0

[Giacomo Mulas]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:

> This is caused by the ongoing effort to remove Python 3.7. casacore
> needs to be rebuilt against the new libboost-python1.67.0
> version. But this build fails with:
>
> | -- Looking for python3 specific environment...
> | -- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python3.7 (found version "3.7.7")
> | -- Found PythonLibs: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so (found version "3.8.2")
> | -- Found Boost: /usr/include (found version "1.67.0")

In the source dir, find python3/CMakeLists-older-cmake.txt, in there you'll
find:

# Detect the python properties
set(Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.4)

add 3.8 before 3.7, so that it now reads:
# Detect the python properties
set(Python_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.4)

then, when I run fakeroot debian/rules build it detects and tries to use
python3.8.

Please, see if this is enough to get the package to compile correctly with
the new boost libraries.

Thanks again, bye
Giacomo

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