Package: dh-fortran-mod Version: 0.39 Severity: important User: [email protected] Usertags: ftcbfs Control: affects -1 + src:odc
Hi, dh-fortran-mod currently is marked Multi-Arch: foreign. That means that it provides only architecture-dependent functionality to its dependencies. src:odc Build-Depends on dh-fortran-mod and expects to get a working fortran compiler in doing so. A fortran compiler very much is not an architecture-independent interface unless naming a particular architecture it should be building for. This is not happening here. Do you think that src:odc's expectation of dh-fortran-mod to provide a fortran compiler is reasonable? If yes, dh-fortran-mod must not be Multi-Arch: foreign and it also cannot be Architecture: all, because such packages cannot transfer an architecture constraint to their dependencies and such constraint transfer is important in this case. If no, please reassign this bug to src:odc as it uses a fortran compiler during build without depending on it. Also consider annotating your compiler dependencies using -for-build and -for-host. A dependency on gfortran will not work for cross compilation, because gfortran:$arch means a fortran compiler running on $arch and producing code for $arch, which very much is not what we want in a cross build. gfortran-for-host addresses this, but it is a very recent addition to src:gcc-defaults and not backportable, so you should add a non-default alternative when using -for-host or -for-build for the time being. Helmut
