On 2023-07-19 13:37:44 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Le dimanche 16 juillet 2023 à 18:50 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher a écrit : > > On 2023-07-15 23:25:28 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > > Please schedule a transition for suitesparse 7, which currently sits in > > > experimental. > > > > Please go ahead. > > Thanks for driving this transition so far. > > I have noticed the build failures of octave on 32-bit architectures > (that you reported in #1041460). > > Actually, it turns out that suitesparse 7 is partly broken on 32-bit > architectures. Contrarily to what I said previously, there is an ABI > change on 32-bit architectures. And due to the way that this ABI change > was performed, it had the unintended consequence of breaking libspqr3 > (provided by src:suitesparse) on 32-bit architectures. Upstream > realized this too late (and did not make much publicity around it, so I > was not aware of the issue before starting the transition). > > Upstream seems to be working on a fix, but at this point there is none > available. The only affected package seems to be octave, for which > there is a workaround (disabling libspqr use on 32-bit archs, which > implies that some functionalities won’t be available there). I hope > this situation is only temporary.
Let's try this workaround until upstream has the fix ready. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
