[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#897780: Now gcc-8 errors caused by non-fitting symbols file became serious

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Julien,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 03:00:12PM +0200, Julien Yann Dutheil wrote:
> Update is (almost) ready upstream.
:-)

> Have a question though: when a program
> has not changed but needs to be rebuilt against the newest version of the
> library, can I just increase the package version number, or should I also
> increase the program version number?

If it is just a rebuild only the Debian revision will be bumped like

    <upstreamversion>-1    will become    <upstreamversion>-2

with a changelog entry

    * Rebuild due to ...
 
> Example: physamp is currently in version 1.1.0. No changes has been made
> but it needs to be recompiled to work with Bio++ 2.4.1. (Was 2.4.0 before).
> Should the new physamp package be called 1.1.0-2 or 1.1.1-1 ?

So this is

      1.1.0-2

> PS: autopkgtests are on the TODO list...

Very cool!

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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