[Debichem-devel] Bug#806612: Bug#806612: cp2k: FTBFS when built with dpkg-buildpackage -A (different version of GNU Fortran)

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 07:25:32PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > Even if your package is not directly to blame, I think it is important
> > to know how this happened and ensure that it will be fixed.
> 
> I think the reason is that testing now has gfortran-5.2, and the elpa
> package in testing has not been rebuilt with it since.  There was an
> elpa upload recently, but as it FTBFS on a few arches, it hasn't
> migrated yet.

But we have Depends, Build-Depends, sonames, and all that.

Is this a transition that we did wrong?

Or maybe this is a bug in the script that makes packages to propagate
to testing? (it used to be called britney if I remember well).

> So hrm, not exactly sure what to do about it.

The options are basically two:

* Do nothing, i.e. keep the bug open until the problem it's fixed.
* Clone/reassign/retitle as appropriate.