Bug#799450: soprano: Causing FTBFS in reverse Build-Depends? ("No rule to make target '/usr/lib/libsoprano.so')

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On September 19, 2015 6:09:37 AM EDT, Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>Source: soprano
>Version: 2.9.4+dfsg-3+b1
>Severity: serious
>Justification: breaks other packages
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm not sure of the underlying cause and it maybe elsewhere in the
>toolchain but soprano appears to be causing a FTBFS in most (?) of its
>Build-Depends with messages such as:
>
> No rule to make target '/usr/lib/libsoprano.so'
>
>For example:
> 
>  * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799362
>  * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799360
>
>Filing this here so others (and myself!) can find it centrally.
>
This is nothing to do with the soprano package.  The other packages are missing a build-dep on libsoprano-dev that used to be pulled in transitively.

Please unmerge the bugs and close this one.  The solution is for the other packages to add the build-dep.

Scott K