[Debichem-devel] Bug#924843: Bug#924843: msxpertsuite: FTBFS: MassSpectrum.cpp:50:10: fatal error: pwiz/data/msdata/MSDataFile.hpp: No such file or directory

[Graham Inggs]

Control: reopen 923928

Hi Release Team

The following mail was sent to bug #924843, but I think it should have
been sent to #923928 as well, so here it is.

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 16:03, Filippo Rusconi <lopippo at debian.org> wrote:
>
> found 924843 5.7.3-1
> fixed 924843 5.8.6-2
> block 924843 by 923928
>
> thanks
>
> The fix in version 5.8.6-2 (currently in unstable) is needed because libpwiz
> changed recently the location of the header files. msxpertsuite was uploaded
> after libpwiz exactly as a result of this. However msxpertsuite unfortunately is
> blocked in unstable because the documentation building system (daps) cannot yet
> enter testing. The un-blocking of daps does not seem be happening anytime soon,
> sadly (the un-block bug report was closed last Sun, 17 Mar, see #923928).
>
> So, if the release managers would reconsider not un-blocking daps, then this bug
> would be easily fixable by letting msxpertsuite 5.8.6-2 migrate to testing.
>
> daps is an all-arch project that has no other reverse-dependencies than
> msxpertsuite.  The fact that msxpertsuite's documentation (fairly large and
> complex) can build using daps is a testimony of the robustness of its debian
> packaging.
>
> Thank you for your work on the release of Buster !
> Cheers,
> Filippo

Regards
Graham