[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#1033667: verilator: Uninstallable in sid because of ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using} dependency

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Dimitry,

Am Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 09:10:17PM +0300 schrieb Dmitry Shachnev:
 
> In a clean sid chroot, verilator is not installable:
... 
> This is because that package has ${sphinxdoc:Built-Using} among its
> dependencies.
> 
> That substitution variable is intended to be used in Built-Using field of
> architecture-dependent packages, NOT in Depends field.
> 
> I have created a merge request [1] on salsa to fix this.
> 
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/electronics-team/verilator/-/merge_requests/3

nice catch!
Thanks also for preparing a patch/MR on this!

I've to admit I haven't looked that much on th existing structure in
d/control while working on verilator weeks ago as the package could be
build successfully in the past.

Will have a look on this the next days!

Regards
Carsten