Bug#669478: illuminator: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libpetsc3.1-dev

[Adam C Powell IV]

On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 21:35 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Source: illuminator
> Version: 0.11.0-13
> Severity: serious
> Tags: wheezy sid
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20120419 qa-ftbfs
> Justification: FTBFS on amd64
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.
> 
> Relevant part:
> > ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
> > │ Install illuminator build dependencies (apt-based resolver)                  │
> > └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
> > 
> > Installing build dependencies
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> > or been moved out of Incoming.
> > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> > 
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  sbuild-build-depends-illuminator-dummy : Depends: libpetsc3.1-dev but it is not installable
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > apt-get failed.

Indeed.  PETSc changed its distributed array interface completely with
version 3.2, I likely won't have time to port it for some time.
Illuminator may need to leave Debian. :-(

-Adam
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