Control: reassign -1 dh-octave 1.17.2 Control: affects -1 iso2mesh-tools Control: retitle dh-octave: Should inject Octave substvars only for main binary package
* Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> [2026-09-10 19:00]: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 04:23:24PM +0200, Rafael Laboissière wrote: >> * Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> [2026-09-08 18:22]: >> >>> Package: iso2mesh-tools >>> Version: 1.9.8+ds-4 >>> Severity: serious >>> >>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/octave-iso2mesh >>> >>> Issues preventing migration: >>> ∙ ∙ iso2mesh-tools/s390x has unsatisfiable dependency >>> >>> >>> In 1.9.8+ds-4 iso2mesh-tools gained dependencies on >>> octave, octave-jnifti, octave-jsonlab, octave-zmat >>> and none of the latter 3 is installable on s390x due >>> to non-availability of octave-zmat. >>> >>> If it is correct for iso2mesh-tools to have these octave >>> dependencies, then they have to also become build dependencies >>> to prevent building on s390x. >> >> Thanks for the bug report, Adrian. >> >> octave-zmat is uninstallable on s390x because it build-depends on >> libblosc2-dev, which is also uninstallable in this architecture either. BTW, >> there is a planned transition for c-blosc2. [1][2] >> >> Would it be appropriate to declare the current bug as being blocked by >> Bug#1141561? > > No. > > #1141561 doesn't fix s390x, it expands the same problem to armhf and i386. > > The iso2mesh-tools dependencies seem to come from the compat 14 change. > > If they are incorrect, then this should be fixed. > > If they are correct, then building iso2mesh-tools must be restricted to > where octave-zmat is available (through build dependencies), so that the > old binaries can be removed. I found the culprit: the bug is in the dh-octave package. Its utility dh_octave_substvars injects the ${octave:Depends} definition into the debian/*.substvars files of all binary packages defined in debian/control. However, this should only be done for the package containing the DESCRIPTION file.5B I am hereby reassigning this bug report to dh-octave, Best, Rafael Laboissière
