Re: trixie + 7.3 → 8.2 transition

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

Thanks for the patch-hunting work, Sébastien. I am taking care of the
packages.

Best,

Rafael

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2023-06-17 23:05]:

> Le jeudi 15 juin 2023 à 11:32 +0200, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> > * Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> [2023-06-13 17:13]:
> >
> > > * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2023-06-13 17:09]:
> > >
> > > > Please *do not* upload octave itself to unstable. This would start
> > > > the transition, and we must first ask the Release Team.
> > >
> > > Ok, thanks for the reminder. I will let you now when all the other
> > > packages will be in unstable.
> >
> > All packages that were in experimental have migrated into unstable,
> > besides octave-statistics, whose new upstream version 1.6.0 FTBFS due to
> > failing BISTs.
> >
> > I checked all packages in sid that currently depend on octave-abi-57
> > (provided by octave 7.3.0-2, see list below). Here are the packages that
> > FTBFS in my sid system with octave 8.2.0-2, with a summarized description
> > of the problem:
>
> Thanks for investigating.
>
> Some more information below:
>
> > octave-database: FTBFS with "error: no matching function for call to
> > ‘verror(octave::execution_exception&, const char [26], const char*)’"
>
> A patch seems available there:
> https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/tip/src/of-database-1-verror.patch
>
> But since octave-database is not in testing, it will not block the
> transition anyways.
>
> > octave-image-acquisition: FTBFS with "error: ‘error_state’ was not
> > declared in this scope; did you mean ‘error_t’?"
>
> A patch seems available there:
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=63136
>
> > octave-level-set: Build-depends on octave-parallel
>
> Hopefully this one won’t fail.
>
> > octave-mpi: FTBFS with "error: ‘error_state’ was not
> > declared in this scope; did you mean ‘error_t’?"
>
> Not in testing, so not a blocker.
>
> > octave-parallel: FTBFS with "error: no matching function for call to
> > ‘verror(octave::execution_exception&, const char [26], const char*)’"
>
> A patch seems available there:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/octave/parallel/ci/a6f7afbb598e80b27433b041a54a4b8d77f490f7/
>
> > octave-stk: Failing BISTs
>
> Julien Bect already replied.
>
> > octave-tisean: FTBFS with "error: ‘error_state’ was not
> > declared in this scope; did you mean ‘error_t’?"
>
> A patch seems available there:
> https://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/tip/src/of-tisean-2-error_state.patch
>
> Ideally we should fix as many packages as possible before starting the
> transition.
>
> --
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