Bug#852305: depends on non existing package libblosc1

[Daniel Stender]

On 23.01.2017 14:02, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Package: python-bcolz
> Version: 1.1.0+ds1-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> on searching what to install to make
> 
> […]/pkg-fio> tools/hist/fiologparser_hist.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "tools/hist/fiologparser_hist.py", line 18, in <module>
>     import pandas
> ImportError: No module named pandas
> 
> work, I came across python-bcolz.
> 
> Yet this is not installable:
> 
> […]~> LANG=C sudo apt install python-bcolz
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 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:
>  python-bcolz : Depends: libblosc1 (>= 1.9.0) but it is not installable
>                 Recommends: python-numexpr but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> 
> […]~> LANG=C apt-cache policy libblosc1
> libblosc1:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Version table:
> 
> […]~> LANG=C apt-cache policy python-numexpr
> python-numexpr:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: (none)
>   Version table:
> 
> I see no bcolz related upload in 2017, so this issue may be there for quite
> some time already.
> 
> Thanks,
> Martin

Hi Martin,

yep, bcolz won't make it into Debian 9 (too late to fix #329 [1]), but libblosc1 should be available [2] ...

Daniel

[1] https://github.com/Blosc/bcolz/issues/329

[2] https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/c-blosc.html


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