Bug#1144324: swig: Causes GDAL to FTBFS

* Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> [2026-08-15 12:58]:

> On 8/15/26 12:44 PM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
>> * Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> [2026-08-14 07:46]:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> I hope so too, that's why it's good to forward the patch upstream to get their feedback, there might be better ways to fix the issue reported in #1024555.

I introduced the patch in order to avoid the xdmf package to FTBFS. Your patch works with xdmf, at least, which depends on SWIG's C++ wrappers.

>>> 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?
>
> To clarify, I was in contact with GDAL upstream, not SWIG upstream.

Oh, my bad. You are right. I apologize for the confusion.

> I'd prefer if you forward the patch to SWIG upstream as you're in a better position to coordinate with them, I'd rather not be the man in the middle.
>
> If you are unable or unwilling to upstream the patch I can do that despite the drawbacks.

I did it: https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/3538

Best,

Rafael Laboissière