Bug#1113041: inkscape: FTBFS with CMake 4

[Philip Chung <contact@objectboxpc.name>]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:56:05 +0200, roehling@debian.org wrote:
> Source: inkscape
> Version: 1.4-6
> Severity: serious
> User: cmake@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: cmake-4
> Tags: ftbfs, forky, sid
>
> Dear maintainer,
>
> During a test rebuild for CMake 4, inkscape failed to rebuild.
>
> [...]
>
> The most likely cause of build failures is the removed backwards
compatibility for
> CMake versions earlier than 3.5. You can find additional information in my
> debian-devel announcement:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/04/msg00310.html
>
> About the archive rebuild: The build was made on debusine.debian.net,
> using sbuild.
>
> You can find the build task here:
> https://debusine.debian.net/work-request/153160/
>
> If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
> reassign and affects, so that this is still visible in the BTS web
> page for this package.
>
> Thanks,
> Timo

Yes, the cause of this build failure appears to be the aforementioned
removal of <3.5 compatibility. This appears to be fixed in upstream
1.4.2, now in testing. (Specifically, cmake_minimum_required in
CMakeLists.txt has been updated to 3.12.0.)

Philip Chung