[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1006754: theli tries to use swarp from suckless-tools instead of SWarp from swarp

[Kay Thriemer]

Hi Yann,
Thank you for reporting the the issue and a temporary solution.
I will change the dependency to SWarp asap.

Regards,
Kay

> On 4. Mar 2022, at 12:09, Yann Vernier <yann at vernier.se> wrote:
> 
> Package: theli
> Version: 3.1.3-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I tried installing theli on Debian unstable. Upon running the program,
> it immediately reports swarp is the wrong version. Checking the swarp
> package, Debian has renamed that program from swarp to SWarp, to avoid
> collision with the suckless-tools program named swarp.
> 
> I reckon the appropriate thing to do in the Debian package, particularly
> as swarp is a dependency, is to make the similar change to call the
> correct program in theli as well.
> 
> As a workaround, it is possible to make a directory with a lower case
> symlink and add it to PATH to run theli, e.g.:
> 
> $ mkdir ~/theli-bin
> $ ln -s /usr/bin/SWarp ~/theli-bin/swarp
> $ PATH=~/theli-bin:$PATH theli &
> 
> It is also possible that the program would look for SWarp if swarp were
> not present, in which case this is a conflict with suckless-tools.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bookworm/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:sv
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages theli depends on:
> ii  libc6                2.33-7
> ii  libcfitsio9          4.0.0-1
> ii  libgcc-s1            12-20220302-1
> ii  libgomp1             12-20220302-1
> ii  libgsl27             2.7.1+dfsg-3
> ii  libqt5core5a         5.15.2+dfsg-15
> ii  libqt5gui5           5.15.2+dfsg-15
> ii  libqt5printsupport5  5.15.2+dfsg-15
> ii  libqt5widgets5       5.15.2+dfsg-15
> ii  libraw20             0.20.2-2
> ii  libstdc++6           12-20220302-1
> ii  libtiff5             4.3.0-4+b1
> ii  libwcs7              7.7+ds-1
> 
> Versions of packages theli recommends:
> ii  astrometry.net          0.89+dfsg-1
> ii  plplot-driver-cairo     5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
> ii  python3-astropy         5.0.1-1
> ii  python3-requests        2.25.1+dfsg-2
> ii  scamp                   2.10.0-2
> ii  source-extractor        2.25.0+ds-3
> ii  suckless-tools [swarp]  46-1
> ii  swarp                   2.41.5-1
> 
> theli suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
>