Bug#998102: paraview-config fails due to missing dependencies and invalid version numbers

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Package: paraview-dev
Version: 5.9.0-2+b2
Severity: normal

Trying to run paraview-config fails with:

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CMake Error at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:303 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindPDAL.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "PDAL", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "PDAL" with any of
  the following names:

    PDALConfig.cmake
    pdal-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "PDAL" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "PDAL_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "PDAL"
  provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
  installed.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:138 (include)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/paraview-config.cmake:53 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:5 (find_package)


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/paraview-config", line 267, in <module>
    extract_paraview_flags(opts.components, cmake=opts.cmake,
  File "/usr/bin/paraview-config", line 165, in extract_paraview_flags
    subprocess.check_call(configure_cmd, cwd=builddir,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 373, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['cmake', '-GUnix Makefiles', '/tmp/tmpuazuzahm/src', '-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:STRING=/usr']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
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Installing libpdal-dev solves the issue, but presents a new one:

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CMake Error at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:350 (find_package):
  find_package called with invalid argument "4.4-6+b2"
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:138 (include)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/paraview-config.cmake:53 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:5 (find_package)


CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.21/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find GL2PS (missing: GL2PS_LIBRARY GL2PS_INCLUDE_DIR) (Required
  is at least version "1.4.2")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.21/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/FindGL2PS.cmake:24 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/VTK-vtk-module-find-packages.cmake:397 (find_package)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/vtk/vtk-config.cmake:138 (include)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/paraview-5.9/paraview-config.cmake:53 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:5 (find_package)


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/paraview-config", line 267, in <module>
    extract_paraview_flags(opts.components, cmake=opts.cmake,
  File "/usr/bin/paraview-config", line 165, in extract_paraview_flags
    subprocess.check_call(configure_cmd, cwd=builddir,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 373, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['cmake', '-GUnix Makefiles', '/tmp/tmpy12r9x1m/src', '-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:STRING=/usr']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
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which I believe seems to indicate the cmake version check system doesn't like
suffixes such as "+b2"

As it is now, it is therefore not possible to link to cmake using
paraview-config to find the include paths and link flags.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages paraview-dev depends on:
ii  libc6               2.32-4
ii  libeigen3-dev       3.3.9-2
ii  paraview            5.9.0-2+b2
ii  qttools5-dev-tools  5.15.2-5

paraview-dev recommends no packages.

paraview-dev suggests no packages.

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