On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 17:28:04 -0500 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
It seems to be some kind of incompatibility in swig. Upstream .cc files
are built with swig 3, debian has swig 4. If the package is built with
the upstream .cc files (ditching the associated lines in debian/rules)
it seems to work fine.
Thanks. I agree. The bad news is that would trade a DFSG issue for a
technical issue, which might be considered progress (since the generated files
can't be regenerated within Main anymore).
I'd argue that's the least-bad option right now for a fix in bullseye.
It's IMO a DFSG-pedantic issue as the files can be regenerated with free
software, just not with anything currently packaged in debian (e.g.,
with the buster version of swig). Would definitely be better than a
completely unusable package. (A change to the .i that makes everything
work would be even better obviously, but I have no idea how swig is
supposed to work.)
