[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#984978: subread FTCBFS -- multiple reasons

[Nilesh Patra]

Package: subread
Version: 2.0.1+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: debian-cross at lists.debian.org
Usertags: ftcbfs
X-Debbugs-Cc: nilesh at debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

Subread has a unsatisfiable dep on python3. Since python3 and bc are
used only for tests, they can easily be annotated with <!nocheck>. It
has been fixed in this commit[1]

Post this, due to flag options not been set in the right way, it causes
trouble this is also accompanied by hardcoding in d/rules. Fixes for
both are pushed here[2] and here[3]

Finally, manpages are generated at build time by help2man, best way
could be to simply use maintainer manpages. Fix for the same is here[4]

The changes in salsa at current
state fix it, and is ready for upload. It should be done post bullseye
release

[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/subread/-/commit/88b58efd42fa54e793ff50ef62db5737adb61edd
[2]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/subread/-/commit/589cf53eb9fc82952f41e247548dd7c2b8e11812
[3]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/subread/-/commit/f9d90bfa07bdc5c0227df9e17af8a56cb80b082a
[4]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/subread/-/commit/5c9b138901d065a45134ccf5e458b49084107f8e

Nilesh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages subread depends on:
ii  libc6   2.31-3
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

subread recommends no packages.

subread suggests no packages.

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