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

[Joost van Baal-Ilić]

Hi Roland,

Thanks for your bugreport.  Ko van der Sloot and me are working on the issue.
The issue will get fixed in a next release.

Bye,

Joost

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>