[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1104497: freecontact: add libgfortran-12-dev as a build dependency to make the package reproducible (future FTBFS)

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Tue May 6 07:37:34 BST 2025


Control: severity -1 serious
Control: retitle -1 freecontact: implicitly build-depends libgfortran-12-dev, will FTBFS without gcc-12

On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 08:13:32AM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 11:23:35AM +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> > Source: freecontact
> > To fix this please add a build dependency on libgfortran-12-dev. I
> > tested that this makes the package reproducible.
> 
> I've investigated this option. However: libgfortran-12-dev is built 
> from gcc-12. gcc-12 is supposed to go away.

Given this means freecontact will FTBFS when gcc-12 is removed from 
testing, I'm bumping this to RC.

This hidden build-dependency is also a design problem that needs to 
be fixed somehow.

Chris



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