diff -Nru openvdb-5.0.0/debian/changelog openvdb-5.0.0/debian/changelog
--- openvdb-5.0.0/debian/changelog	2017-12-26 09:41:24.000000000 +0000
+++ openvdb-5.0.0/debian/changelog	2018-03-19 13:33:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+openvdb (5.0.0-1+rpi1) buster-staging; urgency=medium
+
+  * Change compname from char * to const char * to fix 
+    unittest/TestFile.cc:2555:54: error: invalid conversion from 'char**' to 'const char**' [-fpermissive]
+
+ -- Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>  Mon, 19 Mar 2018 13:33:44 +0000
+
 openvdb (5.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.
diff -Nru openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/const-fix.patch openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/const-fix.patch
--- openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/const-fix.patch	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/const-fix.patch	2018-03-19 13:33:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Description: Fix const issue
+ Change compname from char * to const char * to fix
+ unittest/TestFile.cc:2555:54: error: invalid conversion from 'char**' to 'const char**' [-fpermissive]
+Author: Peter Michael Green <plugwash@raspbian.org>
+
+--- openvdb-5.0.0.orig/unittest/TestFile.cc
++++ openvdb-5.0.0/unittest/TestFile.cc
+@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ TestFile::testBlosc()
+         outdata(new char[decompbufbytes]);
+ 
+     for (int compcode = 0; compcode <= BLOSC_ZLIB; ++compcode) {
+-        char* compname = nullptr;
++        const char* compname = nullptr;
+         if (0 > blosc_compcode_to_compname(compcode, &compname)) continue;
+         /// @todo This changes the compressor setting globally.
+         if (blosc_set_compressor(compname) < 0) continue;
diff -Nru openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/series openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/series
--- openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/series	2017-12-25 17:31:24.000000000 +0000
+++ openvdb-5.0.0/debian/patches/series	2018-03-19 13:33:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@
 use_svg.patch
 isystem.patch
 removecxx11.patch
+const-fix.patch