Bug#1061123: suitesparse breaks octave autopkgtest: it hangs

[Sébastien Villemot]

Control: reassign -1 libsuitesparse-dev 1:7.4.0+dfsg-1
Control: forcemerge 1061049 -1

Le jeudi 18 janvier 2024 à 19:48 +0100, Paul Gevers a écrit :
> Source: suitesparse, octave
> Control: found -1 suitesparse/1:7.5.1+dfsg-1
> Control: found -1 octave/8.4.0-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sid trixie
> User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: breaks needs-update
> 
> Dear maintainer(s),
> 
> With a recent upload of suitesparse the autopkgtest of octave fails in 
> testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of 
> suitesparse from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from 
> testing. In tabular form:
> 
>                         pass            fail
> suitesparse            from testing    1:7.5.1+dfsg-1
> octave                 from testing    8.4.0-1
> all others             from testing    from testing
> 
> I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Normally the 
> test only takes a couple of minutes, now it times out after 2:47 hours. 
> I'm notifying you already as this is currently also impacting the perl 
> transition via texinfo.
> 
> Currently this regression is blocking the migration of suitesparse to 
> testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report 
> against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and 
> reassign the bug to the right package?

Thanks. This is due to a ABI break in suitesparse. We’re currently
discussing the best fix with upstream.

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