Bug#993323: libmath-gsl-perl: FTBFS: Unsupported GSL version!!! : 2.7

[Niko Tyni]

Source: libmath-gsl-perl
Version: 0.42-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs sid bookworm fixed-upstream

This package fails to build on current sid.

  Checking for GSL using gsl-config
  Found GSL 2.7 (via gsl-config) installed in /usr
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wall"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wno-sometimes-uninitialized"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wno-unused-function"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wno-unused-value"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wno-unused-function"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wno-unused-variable"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-Wno-gnu"...yes
  Checking if x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc supports "-g"...Unsupported GSL version!!! : 2.7 at Build.PL line 80.
  yes
  dh_auto_configure: error: /usr/bin/perl Build.PL --installdirs vendor --config "optimize=-g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" --config "ld=x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -g -O2 -ffile-prefix-map=/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now" returned exit code 25
  make: *** [debian/rules:9: binary] Error 25
  dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2
 
This clearly broke with gsl 2.7+dfsg-2. It's should be fixed upstream
in 0.43.

A complication is that gsl 2.7 also broke libmath-gsl-perl on run time
by removing a symbol. I'll report this separately against libgsl25.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org