[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1060104: dcmtk: FTBFS on armel: Error: bad immediate value for offset (4100)

[Sébastien Jodogne]

Dear Emmanuele and Mathieu,

On 3/19/24 08:51, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 8:44 AM Emanuele Rocca <ema at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2024-03-19 06:24, Sébastien Jodogne wrote:
>>> Because of bug #1060104, a large majority of the packages related to
>>> medical imaging have just disappeared from Debian Unstable.
>>>
>>> But, if I correctly understand #1060104, it is specific to one single
>>> platform (armel).
>>
>> Indeed, and there is a simple fix too, which has been uploaded to
>> experimental only so far:
>> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/dcmtk/-/commit/42583dfe9fd344a63cdbc278268d4176d4a22ec4
>>
>> Mathieu (or someone else from debian-med), could you please apply that
>> to unstable as well? It seems that with the current state of unstable
>> the transition will take a while anyways.
> 
> I will be away from any Debian tasks for at least another month
> unfortunately. The patch was suggested by an armel porter so I believe
> this is the right thing to do.
> 
>> Worth pointing out that right now dcmtk cannot be built in sid/armel due
>> to a missing build depend, namely graphviz. It seems worth applying the
>> fix to unstable anyways so that it does not fall through the cracks, and
>> we can schedule a binNMU later when graphviz is available again.

I could try to upload this patch by myself to unstable. Unfortunately, 
I'm not an uploader of the dcmtk package, so an intervention from a 
Debian Developer is required to give me the proper access rights:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dcmtk

Kind Regards,
Sébastien-