Bug#700389: libtimbl3-dev: Broken dependencies make other packages FTBFS (needs ticcutils/StringOps.h from libticcutils1-dev)

[Roland Stigge]

Package: timbl
Version: 6.4.3-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid
User: debian-powerpcspe at breakpoint.cc
Usertags: powerpcspe

Hi,

trying to build frog[1] on powerpcspe[2], I got this result[3]:

make[3]: Entering directory `/«PKGBUILDDIR»/build/2.6/src'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/«PKGBUILDDIR»/./src -I..  -I/«PKGBUILDDIR»/./include   -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -pthread -fopenmp -I/usr/include  -I/usr/include/libxml2   -I/usr/include/libxml2   -I/usr/include/libxml2   -I/usr/include/libxml2   -I/usr/include/libxml2   -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c -o mbma_mod.o /«PKGBUILDDIR»/./src/mbma_mod.cxx
In file included from /usr/include/timbl/TimblAPI.h:37:0,
                 from /«PKGBUILDDIR»/./src/mbma_mod.cxx:34:
/usr/include/timbl/Types.h:42:33: fatal error: ticcutils/StringOps.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Looks like /usr/include/timbl/Types.h in libtimbl3-dev references
ticcutils/StringOps.h from libticcutils1-dev but doesn't depend on it.

You can reproduce this issue with a simple test program like:

#include <timbl/Types.h>
int main() { return 0; }

Just checked that the frog FTBFS issue is also present in amd64.

Adding the libticcutils1-dev fixes this. However, is appears that further, frog
also uses timbl/LogStream.h which isn't (anymore?) in libtimbl3-dev.

Thanks in advance,

Roland


[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/frog.html
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/PowerPCSPEPort
[3] http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=frog

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