[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#901634: amide: Doesn't run due to linking error

[Adrian Bunk]

Control: reassign -1 libmdc2 0.15.0-1
Control: retitle -1 libmdc2: soname changed but package name was not changed
Control: affects -1 amide

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:47:10PM +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> Package: amide
> Version: 1.0.5-10
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Amide doesn't start due to a library linkage issue:
> 
> $ amide
> amide: error while loading shared libraries: libmdc.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> I have libmdc2 installer because it is a dependency, but the library file is libmdc.so.3, not libmdc.so.2.
>...
> Versions of packages amide depends on:
>...
> ii  libmdc2             0.15.0-1
>...

Thanks for your bug report, I am reassigning it to libmdc2 where the 
root cause is.

As short-term workaround, you could downgrade libmdc2 to the version
in stretch.

cu
Adrian

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