Bug#725094: libvtk5-dev: Build-deps uninstallable on mips

[Andrei POPESCU]

Control: reassign -1 src:vtk

On Lu, 30 sep 13, 18:18:18, Wookey wrote:
> Source: libvtk5-dev
> Version: 5.8.0-14.1
> Severity: important
> 
> apt-get install libvtk5-dev in a mips porterbox unstable chroot fails:
> 
> -------------
> #apt-get install libvtk5-dev
> 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:
>  libvtk5-dev : Depends: mpi-default-dev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> Command apt-get install -- libvtk5-dev exited with exit code 1.
> --------------
> 
> This prevents packages which build-dep on libvtk5 from building on this arch, such as:
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=therion&suite=sid
> which is how I noticed the issue.
> The problem seems to be that
> libvtk5-dev depends on:
>  mpi-default-dev -> libmpich2-dev -> libmpich-dev -> libmpich10
> whilst 
> libvtk5.8 depends on:
>  libmpich2-3
> 
> and libmpich2-3 conflicts with libmpich10
> 
> 
> mips and amd64 libvtk5.8 deps are different. Is that right?:
> On mips:
> $ apt-cache show libvtk5.8
> Depends: libavcodec54 (>= 6:9.1-1) | libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 6:9.8), libavformat54 (>= 6:9.1-1), libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1), li
> bc6 (>= 2.7), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libgl2ps0, libjp
> eg8 (>= 8c), libmpich2-3, libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1), libnetcdfc++4, libnetcdfc7, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpq5, 
> libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libswscale2 (>= 6:9.1-1), libt
> iff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
> 
> On amd64:
> $ apt-cache show libvtk5.8
> $ Depends: libavcodec54 (>= 6:9.1-1) | libavcodec-extra-54 (>= 6:9.8), libavformat54 (>= 6:9.1-1), libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1), 
> libc6 (>= 2.14), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libgl2ps0, li
> bjpeg8 (>= 8c), libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1), libnetcdfc++4, libnetcdfc7, libopenmpi1.6, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), lib
> pq5, libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.6.1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libswscale2 (>= 6:9.1-1),
>  libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~), libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3)
> 
> I don't understand what has happened here, and whether this is actually an mpich or a vtk problem, but it's quite serious. I 
> presume it is something to do with the transition from mpich2 to mpich that seems to be underway.
> 
> It would appear to be stopping anything build-depping on vtk from building on mips and thus from migrating to testing. 
> 
> Do you know how to fix this?
> 
> I'll try a rebuild on the porterbox and see if this magically sorts itself out in which case a BINNMU should do the trick.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: mips (mips64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-octeon (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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