On 24 November 2015 at 17:07, Iain Lane wrote:
| Control: reopen -1 =
| Control: block 805814 by -1
| 
| On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 09:12:09AM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
| > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 02:17:16PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > > 
| > > On 11 November 2015 at 11:45, Iain Lane wrote:
| > > | Package: gsl
| > > | Version: 2.0+dfsg-1
| > > | Severity: normal
| > > | Tags: patch
| > > | User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
| > > | Usertags: origin-ubuntu xenial ubuntu-patch
| > > | 
| > > | I noticed when rebuilding packages for the gsl transition in Ubuntu that
| > > | mrtrix FTBFS due to disabled deprecatead functions. Maybe we should
| > > | re-enable them for now to ease the transition? Patch attached.
| > > 
| > > Did you report that upstream too?  Looks like I no longer need the patch 
in
| > > the brand new gsl 2.1.
| > 
| > No I didn't, sorry - in Ubuntu the transition got entangled with a whole
| > bunch of other stuff (poppler, ocaml, ...) and so I was frantically
| > fixing many packages at once.
| > 
| > If mrtrix continues to build with 2.1 then by all means drop it. :)
| 
| Ah. OK. Now I've looked again and here's the situation.
| 
| mrtrix build-depends on the old libgsl0-dev. If you update this then it
| fails to build on a missing cstddef include. After adding that it then
| fails to build on the deprecated functions.
| 
| So the patch is still needed to fully transition Debian. Sorry.

No -- my bad, and I am sorry.  I was too hopeful as I saw similar language in
the new _and_ the patch failed to apply.

If you have a moment, can you see if applies cleanly for you? Maybe I messed
something else up.  Would be happy to apply (carefully) by hand, but am
sadly not that fluent with quilt et al.

Dirk

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