[Python-modules-team] Bug#924341: pygnuplot: FTBFS due to unsatisfiable build-dependency debhelper (= 12)

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Source: pygnuplot
Version: 0.11.16-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

Dear Maintainer,

pygnuplot fails to build because it cannot install its build 
dependencies:
$ sudo apt build-dep pygnuplot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  builddeps:pygnuplot : Depends: debhelper (= 12) but 12.1.1 is to be 
installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

(see also 
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/pygnuplot.html)

I assume a >= requirement would resolve this issue, though haven't 
tested if the package builds then.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- 
mvh / best regards
Hans Joachim Desserud
http://desserud.org