Bug#1118272: dh-fortran-mod

[Alastair McKinstry]

On 19/10/2025 15:37, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 10:17:00AM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
>
>> Two things are happening here:
>> (1) dh-fortran-mod changed from depending on gfortran to gfortran-for-host
>> (as was recommended for cross-building). Some packages were relying on this
>> for gfortran, but gfortran-for-host is not pulling in a compiler that the
>> build system eg cmake or meson can use.
>> Reverting this change.
>>
>> (2) There was a change in dh_fortran_lib behaviour, used experimentally in
>> some packages I maintain. Uploading fixes for these. (dh_fortran_lib now
>> installs in the target pkg rather than working in debian/tmp, to be
>> consistent with other dh_ packages).
> So this is really neither "bug in dh-fortran-mod" nor "bug in individual packages"
> but more like a mix of the two things.
>
> To simplify, I suggest to keep this bug open until all packages in the affects
> may be built again in unstable.
>
> (The alternative would be to clone this bug several times or report
> several new bugs, which imo would be pointless if you plan to fix the
> individual packages soon enough).

Yes. I did a number of uploads yesterday and its probably down to only 
one case left - slepc; but there may be follow-ons; Leave this bug open 
for tracking;

> Thanks.
Thanks
Alastair

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