Bug#847974: xmds2: FTBFS in stretch

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 05:42:37PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Package: src:xmds2
> Version: 2.2.2+dfsg-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Dear maintainer:
> 
> I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
> (which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
> but it failed:
>...
> warning: the size of octave_hdf5_id is smaller than the size of HDF5 hid_t
> warning: called from
>     lorenz.m at line 2 column 3
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread 140615878277440:
>   #000: ../../../src/H5G.c line 464 in H5Gopen2(): not a location
>     major: Invalid arguments to routine
>     minor: Inappropriate type
>   #001: ../../../src/H5Gloc.c line 253 in H5G_loc(): invalid object ID
>     major: Invalid arguments to routine
>     minor: Bad value
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread 140615878277440:
>   #000: ../../../src/H5Gdeprec.c line 796 in H5Gget_num_objs(): not a location ID
>     major: Invalid arguments to routine
>     minor: Inappropriate type
>   #001: ../../../src/H5Gloc.c line 253 in H5G_loc(): invalid object ID
>     major: Invalid arguments to routine
>     minor: Bad value
> HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.10.0-patch1) thread 140615878277440:
>   #000: ../../../src/H5G.c line 725 in H5Gclose(): not a group
>     major: Invalid arguments to routine
>     minor: Inappropriate type
>...
> The build history I keep is like this:
> 
> Status: successful  xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161118T125207Z
> Status: successful  xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161123T025916Z
> Status: successful  xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161128T001945Z
> Status: successful  xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161202T231309Z
> Status: failed      xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161207T065906Z
> Status: failed      xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161208T214652Z
> Status: failed      xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161208T214639Z
> Status: failed      xmds2_2.2.2+dfsg-2_amd64-20161208T214702Z
> 
> Something happened in stretch between 2016-12-02 and 2016-12-07
> that made this package to FTBFS.

What happened was the hdf5 transition.

Gilles, you seem to have somehow missed xmds2 in your transition 
planning?

> Please tell me if you need a full build log, and I will attach it.
> 
> (Using sbuild on a single CPU virtual machine, it always fails for me,
> on different machines, so it should be easy to reproduce).
> 
> Thanks.

cu
Adrian

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