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

[Ivo De Decker]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 09:32:42PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> 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.

We don't accept new packages into testing at this point. Even if we did, the
changes in msxpertsuite aren't even close to appropriate during the freeze. So
both msexpersuite and daps will not be unblocked.

Please do read the freeze policy:

https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html

As msxpertsuite FTBFS in buster, we will need to remove it unless a targeted
fix show up soon.

> > 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.

Ivo