[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#969638: gwyddion: Many modules (15) failed to register.

[Laszlo Frazer]

Subject: gwyddion: Many modules (15) failed to register.
Package: gwyddion
Version: 2.55-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,


    * What led up to the situation?

aptitude full-upgrade

    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
      ineffective)?

Started gwyddion (ineffective).

Followed instructions to remove modules and reinstall with aptitude.

    * What was the outcome of this action?

Almost all functions of Gwyddion missing from the menu.  Received message:

Many modules (15) failed to register.
Most likely Gwyddion was not upgraded correctly.  Instead, one installation was just overwritten with another, and now it is a mess.
Please remove completely the module directory
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gwyddion/modules
and reinstall Gwyddion.
See Info → Module Browser for specific errors.

This bug is also in Ubuntu and is known upstream.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gwyddion/+bug/1882441
http://gwyddion.net/#news-2020-07-12
2020-07-29: To get working Gwyddion packages in Ubuntu you can use the Gwyddion-SPM PPA instead of the broken distro packages (bug 1882441). The PPA 
also provides more current versions of Gwyddion.

2020-07-12: Gwyddion package in Ubuntu 20.04 (possibly other versions?) is broken, failing to load any modules at startup due to linking issue. See 
bug 1882441 in Launchpad. At present there is no known workaround aside for compilation from source code (as dscribed in the bug report).

    * What outcome did you expect instead?

Menu options present.  Thanks in advance!



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gwyddion depends on:
ii  gwyddion-common     2.55-3
ii  libc6               2.31-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.40.0+dfsg-5
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.64.4-1
ii  libgomp1            10.2.0-6
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.32-4
ii  libgtkglext1        1.2.0-9
ii  libgwyddion2-0      2.55-3
ii  libminizip1         1.1-8+b1
ii  libpng16-16         1.6.37-2
ii  libx11-6            2:1.6.10-3
ii  libxml2             2.9.10+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libxmu6             2:1.1.2-2+b3
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

gwyddion recommends no packages.

gwyddion suggests no packages.

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