Bug#652258: Possible removal of gerris

[Neil Williams]

found 652258 20110329-dfsg.2-2~experimental1
found 652258 20091109-dfsg.1-1
tag 652258 squeeze
quit

652258 is marked as blocked by 660492 but 660492 is as good as marked
wontfix:

> 
> gts-config is obsolete. You should use `pkg-config --cflags gts`
> and/or `pkg-config --libs gts`

That requires changes to configure.in but gerris fails with autoreconf:

doc/examples/Makefile.am:49: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate directory
for `DATA' src/Makefile.am:18: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate
directory for `DATA' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

The same bug affects the versions in experimental and squeeze, also
with the same autoreconf problem.

I've had a few plays with the ./configure script to try and get it to
use pkg-config gts instead of gts-config but this would be a fragile
fix at best as the fix could not be put into configure.in.

I've checked with dak rm -Rn gerris on ries.d.o:
Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

Unless gerris can be ported to use pkg-config gts instead of
gts-config, I think gerris will need to be removed from Debian before
the Wheezy freeze.

Of course, if gts could change gts-config to be a wrapper for
'pkg-config $@ gts' then maybe things could be fixed that way but
gerris still needs to sort out it's autotools support so that
autoreconf can be run successfully or this bug will just come back in
another guise.

If gerris remains unfixed by the time of the next BSP, I'll file for
removal of gerris from testing, unstable and experimental. (If anyone
else reviewing RC bugs agrees with my assessment above and there has
been no change in this bug report, feel free to file an RM for unstable
and an RM for experimental.)

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Neil Williams
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