Bug#1144324: swig: Causes GDAL to FTBFS

* Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> [2026-08-14 07:46]:

> On 8/14/26 6:53 AM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>> On 8/13/26 8:21 PM, Bas Couwenberg wrote:
>>> The pycontainer patch seems to be the culprit:
>>>
>>> "
>>>   I can't reproduce the issue with SWIG 4.5.0 built from official SWIG tarballs, but looking at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/swig/-/blob/debian/master/debian/patches/include-pycontainer.patch , I believe it is the reason of the failure as it unconditionnally includes a SWIG .swg file only meant for C++. This patch to the SWIG package looks wrong to me
>>> "
>>
>> Dropping include-pycontainer.patch (e.g. as per the attached patch) is confirmed the fix the issue.
>>
>> Has the issue been discussed with upstream or the patch forwarded? They likely can suggest a better fix.
>>
>> I don't know if it's possible to make the include conditional for C++, that might be a good alternative too.
>
> The attached patch does that and also resolves the GDAL build failure.

Thanks for you patch. I committed it at your name [1] and released version 4.5.0-2 of the package. I hope there will not be other collateral effects.

> Either of these patches should be forwarded upstream to get their input on the best solution.

As you are already in contact with the upstream authors regarding this issue, could you please forward your patch to them?

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/swig/-/commit/2995208e6103b136aaaf7920c72732409bfe7562