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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Anton,

Anton Gladky wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, much appreciated.

> 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.

I see, thanks for the explanation. (I actually didn't mind uploading
alpha versions to Sid, especially if they're well tested. I just
mentioned it because for me it raised the probability that the issue
is not in gnudatalanguage. :-)

> 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.

Feel free to downgrade the severity. As mentioned I veered between
those two severities.

> I can just propose now to remove gnudatalanguage on arm64 till the
> issue is not resolved.

That's my plan B, yes. ;-)

But I'll first wait a little bit more before I'll do this.

		Regards, Axel
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