Bug#930961: gsoap is wrongly marked Multi-Arch: foreign

[Mattias Ellert]

sön 2019-06-23 klockan 17:47 +0200 skrev Helmut Grohne:
> I see the following options to fix this:
> 
> 1. Remove Multi-Arch: foreign. (<- This is bad. I hope obviously.)
> 2. Drop the dependency from gsoap to libgsoap-dev. Thus gsoap no longer
>    exposes libgsoap-dev. Doing so makes a number of packages (including
>    voms) FTBFS until they add a dependency on libgsoap-dev. However this
>    is the approach chosen by flex (and libfl-dev) and bison (and
>    libbison-dev). This is doable and consistent with other packages. Of
>    course this is not reasonable before buster is out of the door.
> 3. Flip the dependency. This one is tricky. We remove the dependency
>    from gsoap to libgsoap-dev. Then, we rename gsoap to gsoap-bin. Then
>    we rename libgsoap-dev to gsoap and add Provides: libgsoap-dev to the
>    new gsoap. The new gsoap also Depends: gsoap-bin. Effectively the
>    dependency is reversed. The entry point no longer is Multi-Arch:
>    foreign, but Multi-Arch: same instead. This approach is used by
>    qt5-qmake.
> 
> gsoap has a total of 7 build-rdeps in main. That's a strict upper bound
> to the number of FTBFS option 2 can introduce (i.e. few). Please tell me
> which option you prefer. If you choose option 1, I'm sad. If you choose
> 2, I can prepare and/or perform the filing of the FTBFS bugs. If you
> choose 3, I can prepare a patch for gsoap. If you have no clue, don't
> ask for help with better understanding the situation.
> 
> Helmut

Hi Helmut.

Option 2 was implemented. All packages except for virtualbox either do
not need changes or have been fixed. If you could file the bug for
virtualbox I would appreciate it.

gsoap:
  - Remove libgsoap-dev dependency from gsoap
  - Fixed in 2.8.75-2

cgsi-gsoap:
  - Build-Depends on libgsoap-dev, does not use gsoap
  - No change needed

davix:
  - Add Build-Depends on libgsoap-dev
  - Fixed in 0.7.4-1

gridsite:
  - Add Build-Depends on libgsoap-dev
  - Fixed in 3.0.0~20180202git2fdbc6f-2

lcgdm:
  - Build-Depends on libcgsi-gsoap-dev, which Depends on libgsoap-dev
  - No change needed

srm-ifce:
  - Build-Depends on libcgsi-gsoap-dev, which Depends on libgsoap-dev
  - No change needed

voms:
  - Add Build-Depends on libgsoap-dev
  - Fixed in 2.1.0~rc0-6

virtualbox:
  - Add Build-Depends on libgsoap-dev
  - NOT DONE YET!

        Mattias

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