[Debichem-devel] Bug#889701: comet-ms: unsatisfiable build dependency

[Filippo Rusconi]

Greetings, Steve,

thank you for your message. 

On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 11:39:24PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>Source: comet-ms
>Version: 2017012-1
>Severity: serious
>
>Hi Filippo,
>
>The comet-ms package in Debian unstable is unbuildable on all architectures,
>because it build-depends on libmstoolkit-dev (>= 82) but the most recent
>version of libmstoolkit which has been uploaded to the archive is
>77.0.0-1.1.  If this newer version is required, please upload it to Debian
>(I see you are the maintainer of both packages); otherwise, please relax the
>build-dependency.

This is a catch-22 situation. the libmstoolkit package was in the new QUEUE but
was rejected because two files or so had no copyright statement. I had uploaded
it after having written a message to upstream enquiring about these files. I was
envisaging to fix debian/copyright according to the responses for the next
upload. But upstream never answered. And comet-ms indeed depends on
libmstoolkit82.

I sent weeks ago another message which got no response. I still have one
possibility to enquire for the files' author(s) at the institute where I suspect
the author(s) worked in the past. If I have no answer, I'll drop these packages
altogether, which is a real pity because they are good stuff.

Cheers,
Filippo

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