Bug#1008470: libplplot-dev: Uninstallable since libltdl-dev stopped providing libltdl3-dev with its 2.4.7-2 upload

[Axel Beckert]

Package: libplplot-dev
Version: 5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid

Hi,

libplplot-dev has become uninstallable in unstable after the recent
2.4.7-2 upload of libltdl-dev (source: libtool) which stopped providing
libltdl3-dev.

IMHO Alastair (X-Debbugs-Cc'ed) should have done a proper transition for
that since this also makes libtool not migrating to Testing for a long
time because about 30 packages (in Testing) are affected by this issue
according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libtool.

Nevertheless I think that in the long run, all these packages should
migrate to libltdl-dev instead of libltdl3-dev, so I'm not filing this
bug report against libltdl-dev, too.

I'll leave it to Alastair if he wants to revert that change for some
more time and do a proper transition with a mass-bug filing as he IMHO
should have done before making that change and should do before making
that change again again — in case he decides on reverting it for now.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libplplot-dev depends on:
ii  gfortran [gfortran-mod-15]          4:11.2.0-2
ii  gfortran-11 [gfortran-mod-15]       11.2.0-19
ii  libcsirocsa0                        5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libcsironn0                         5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libfreetype-dev [libfreetype6-dev]  2.11.1+dfsg-1
ii  libfreetype6-dev                    2.11.1+dfsg-1
ii  libltdl-dev [libltdl3-dev]          2.4.7-1
ii  libplplot17                         5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libplplotcxx15                      5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libplplotfortran0                   5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libplplotqt2                        5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libplplotwxwidgets1                 5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libqhull-dev                        2020.2-4
ii  libqsastime-dev                     5.15.0+dfsg-24+b1
ii  libshp-dev                          1.5.0-2

Versions of packages libplplot-dev recommends:
ii  cmake            3.22.1-1+b1
pn  libplplot-d      <none>
pn  libplplot-lua    <none>
pn  libplplot-ocaml  <none>
ii  pkg-config       0.29.2-1

Versions of packages libplplot-dev suggests:
pn  plplot-doc       <none>
pn  plplot-examples  <none>

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