Bug#846759: deal.ii: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: libp4est-dev

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Source: deal.ii
Version: 8.4.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: stretch sid
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20161202 qa-ftbfs
Justification: FTBFS on amd64

Hi,

During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
amd64.

Relevant part (hopefully):
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Install package build dependencies                                           |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> 
> Setup apt archive
> -----------------
> 
> Merged Build-Depends: cmake, debhelper (>= 9.20150628), doxygen, graphviz, libarpack2-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-serialization-dev, libboost-system-dev, libboost-thread-dev, libbz2-dev, libgsl-dev, libhdf5-dev, libhdf5-mpi-dev, liblapack-dev, libmuparser-dev, libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev, libnetcdf-dev, liboce-foundation-dev, liboce-modeling-dev, liboce-ocaf-dev, liboce-visualization-dev, libp4est-dev, libsuitesparse-dev, libtbb-dev, mpi-default-dev, petsc-dev, slepc-dev, trilinos-all-dev, zlib1g-dev
> Filtered Build-Depends: cmake, debhelper (>= 9.20150628), doxygen, graphviz, libarpack2-dev, libboost-iostreams-dev, libboost-serialization-dev, libboost-system-dev, libboost-thread-dev, libbz2-dev, libgsl-dev, libhdf5-dev, libhdf5-mpi-dev, liblapack-dev, libmuparser-dev, libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev, libnetcdf-dev, liboce-foundation-dev, liboce-modeling-dev, liboce-ocaf-dev, liboce-visualization-dev, libp4est-dev, libsuitesparse-dev, libtbb-dev, mpi-default-dev, petsc-dev, slepc-dev, trilinos-all-dev, zlib1g-dev
> dpkg-deb: building package 'sbuild-build-depends-deal.ii-dummy' in '/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-y0L1ds/apt_archive/sbuild-build-depends-deal.ii-dummy.deb'.
> dpkg-scanpackages: warning: Packages in archive but missing from override file:
> dpkg-scanpackages: warning:   sbuild-build-depends-core-dummy sbuild-build-depends-deal.ii-dummy
> dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 2 entries to output Packages file.
> Ign:1 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-y0L1ds/apt_archive ./ InRelease
> Get:2 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-y0L1ds/apt_archive ./ Release [963 B]
> Ign:3 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-y0L1ds/apt_archive ./ Release.gpg
> Get:4 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-y0L1ds/apt_archive ./ Sources [685 B]
> Get:5 copy:/<<BUILDDIR>>/resolver-y0L1ds/apt_archive ./ Packages [765 B]
> Fetched 2413 B in 0s (226 kB/s)
> Reading package lists...
> W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
> Reading package lists...
> 
> Install deal.ii build dependencies (apt-based resolver)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Installing build dependencies
> 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:
>  sbuild-build-depends-deal.ii-dummy : Depends: libp4est-dev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> apt-get failed.

The full build log is available from:
   http://aws-logs.debian.net/2016/12/02/deal.ii_8.4.2-1_unstable.log

A list of current common problems and possible solutions is available at
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/FTBFS . You're welcome to contribute!

About the archive rebuild: The rebuild was done on EC2 VM instances from
Amazon Web Services, using a clean, minimal and up-to-date chroot. Every
failed build was retried once to eliminate random failures.