Bug#803552: libeigen3-dev: Upgrade from 3.2.x to 3.3~alpha causes gnudatalanguage to FTBFS on arm64

[Anton Gladky]

Hi Axel,

thanks for bugreport, I will try to contact upstream
regarding this issue, usually they are very responsive. So
I hope we will solve this issue as far as possible.

There were reasons, why I uploaded alpha version into sid.
First of all this version was precisely tested for all packages
(yes, arm64 was not used for that). But the main reason is
the following: starting from 3.3 old eigen2-support will be
dropped. So affected packages were NMU-ed, dropping
eigen2-interface and migrating to eigen3. To escape the new
package uploads into the sid, which could potentially use
eigen2, this alpha version was uploaded.

Regarding bug`s severity, I think it should be important. This
affects only one package on one architecture, even if it is
a release architecture. I can just propose now to remove
gnudatalanguage on arm64 till the issue is not resolved.

Best regards

Anton


2015-10-31 12:20 GMT+01:00 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org>:
> So far I would have set the severity only to "important" as only
> gnudatalanguage seems affected. But since upstream knows about issues
> with arm64 (see below) and they sound as broken as gnudatalanguage
> currently is on arm64, IMHO "grave" is justified.