[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#911881: [ball] package does not build with boost1.67

[Giovanni Mascellani]

Package: ball
Severity: wishlist
User: team+boost at tracker.debian.org
Usertags: boost1.67

Dear Maintainer,

your package fails to build with boost1.67. You can find a build log
attached. If you want to attempt the build yourself, an updated version
of boost-defaults which brings in boost1.67 dependencies can be found
adding this line to your sources.list file:

  deb https://people.debian.org/~gio/reprepro unstable main

This bug has severity whishlist for the moment, but it will raised to RC
as soon as version 1.67 of Boost is promoted to default.

More specifically, your package fails building because it attempts to
access fields of boost::math::quaternion which have become private.
Unfortunately it is difficult to devise a patch for this change, and it
seems that upstream project decided to directly migrate the underlying
implementation to Eigen[1].

 [1]
https://github.com/BALL-Project/ball/commit/493b9b3d90fd67bb0e1be50ea16660de9440572d

Please, consider updating your package or cherry-picking the relevant
changes in order to avoid FTBFS with the new Boost version.

Thanks and all the best, Giovanni.
-- 
Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascellani at gmail.com>
Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles
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