On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 17:12:27 -0500 Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.)

I have it figured out.  I'll upload shortly for Unstable and then work on 
fixing 
the stable version.  If you want to build a local copy that works, delete all 
the mv's in debian/rules and rebuild.  The way that's structured is what 
caused the problem.

Scott K

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