Bug#792992: gazebo: FTBFS with Bullet 2.83.5

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Markus,

On 21.07.2015 17:50, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Am 21.07.2015 um 17:38 schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
>> On 20.07.2015 13:45, Markus Koschany wrote:
>>> gazebo fails to build from source with the latest version of Bullet,
>>> 2.83.5. Please update your package.
>>
>> This is fixed upstream [1][2]. Attached is a patch for the debian package.
> 
> Great. Thanks.

:-)

>>> I am sorry for the short notice of this bug report because I became
>>> only recently aware of gazebo being a new reverse dependency of
>>> Bullet. The upload to unstable happened in May but the package passed
>>> the NEW queue only yesterday.
>>
>> Preparing library transitions in experimental avoids such problems.
> 
> Yup, but since Gazebo has never been in testing, this issue simply fell
> through the cracks and shouldn't cause any delay for the transition at all.

I see. I was just rather surprised to see gazebo failing during the
libav -> ffmpeg transition, while it worked fine in my rebuild test a few
days ago.

Best regards,
Andreas