[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1084871: Bug#1084871: edfbrowser: Unusable due to too old libedf

[Étienne Mollier]

Control: severity -1 grave

Hi Mikko,

Mikko Rasa, on 2024-10-10:
> EDFbrowser contains a runtime check for libedf version.  Since edfbrowser
> 2.11 the required version of edflib is 1.27 (exact, not greater-or-equal).
> If the version check fails, the UI is disabled and the program is unusable.
> 
> Debian currently ships EDFlib 1.26, meaning that the versions of edfbrowser
> in testing and unstable (2.11 and 2.12 respectively) cannot be used.

Thanks for your report, my apologies, that's what happens when
I work on too many packages at once.  Our current automated test
is superficial and would capture only some segmentation faults
caused by libraries version mismatch, maybe a runtime check
prompted to the terminal, but not a runtime check prompted
through the graphical interface.

I bumped the severity as this renders the package unusable.

> Upstream has not made a release of EDFlib 1.27, which presumably is the
> reason for Debian not having packaged it.  However upstream also includes
> an embedded copy of edflib in the edfbrowser repository, which is up to
> date. Debian has removed this embedded copy in favor of using a shared
> library package.
> 
> The fix is probably to package a prerelease version of EDFlib 1.27, but I'm
> filing this bug in edfbrowser because that's what's broken for me.  Also it
> would be a good idea to make edfbrowser depend on an exact version of
> edflib, to match the runtime check in the code.

Again, thanks for the report, it prompted me to liaise with
upstream[1] to see whether the standalone EDFlib 1.27 can be
released timely.  If not, then I plan to revert the EDFbrowser
package to 2.10 this evening UTC.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/Teuniz/EDFlib/-/issues/19

Have a nice day,  :)
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