Bug#993323: closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> (reply to Florian Schlichting <fsfs at debian.org>) (Bug#993323: fixed in libmath-gsl-perl 0.43-1)

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: reopen -1

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 05:09:03PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>...
>  libmath-gsl-perl (0.43-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>...
>    * Import upstream version 0.43 (closes: #993323)
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>   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.
>...

Looking at the code, and as ugly as it is, I think libmath-gsl-perl 
needs a manual Depends: libgsl25 (<< 2.7.1) that gets manually updated
for new upstream versions.

cu
Adrian