[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#903793: libgmap1-dev: broken symlink: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmap.so -> libgmap.so.1.0.0

[Alex Mestiashvili]

Hi Andreas,

On 07/17/2018 08:19 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 11:41:01PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> Depends: gmap (= 2017-11-15-1) | libgmap1 (= 2017-11-15-1)
>>
>> which does not sound like a good idea if gmap does not provide the required
>> shared library.
> 
> I've fixed this in Git and also updated to the latest upstream version.
> Unfortunately the latest upstream does not build the lib any more even
> after trying
> 
>  override_dh_auto_configure:
> -       dh_auto_configure -- --enable-shared --with-gmapdb=/var/cache/gmap \
> +       dh_auto_configure -- --enable-lib --enable-shared --with-gmapdb=/var/cache/gmap \
>         --bindir=/usr/lib/gmap $(EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS)
> 
> Since you are way more comfortable with this package would you please
> have a look?  I have no idea whether the idea is needed at all thus
> I stop fiddling around here.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>      Andreas.
> 

I plan to drop libgmap1[0], as there is no use cases so far. (also no
rdepends).
Was about to do it long time ago but failed due to ENOTIME...


I'll try to look later today on the package and may be upload the new
version.

Best regards,
Alex

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