Bug#632468: nmu: udav_0.6.3-2

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi all

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:00:42AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:25:33AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 07:53:09PM +0300, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote:
> > > Στις Σαβ 02 Ιουλ 2011 18:41:18 Salvatore Bonaccorso γράψατε:
> > > Hello Salvatore,
> > > 
> > > > I'm cc'ing Dimitrios if he has an idea on this. mathgl should be in a
> > > > much stable shape now as it was previously. 
> > > 
> > > After the last nmu's by Steve Langasek, mathgl should build much more smoothly 
> > > on all architectures.
> > > 
> > > > Dimitrios do you have some
> > > > insights on possible ABI break inbetween 1.10 -> 1.11?
> > > 
> > > Sorry, I don't know.  
> > 
> > I now got down with snapshot.d.o packages, and indeed udav starts
> > fine until 1.10.2.1-2 but with 1.11.0.1-1, udav has the first time
> > 
> > udav: Symbol `mgls_base_cmd' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking
> > 
> > So did indeed mathgl broke it's ABI there and needed to bump the
> > soname?
> 
> Julien, or someone else from the release team, could you add a
> removal-hint for udav 0.6.3-2 in wheezy as it is due to this completly
> non-functional (without rebuild) currently in testing?
> 
> udav 0.7.1.2 is now in unstable, except on kfreebsd-amd64 due the
> binutils problems [1].
> 
>  [1] http://bugs.debian.org/632671

udav 0.7.1.2 is now in wheezy, so this request can be closed.

Btw, from upstream I got the following:

> Possible yes. I did some changes which may break ABI.
>
> I hope that new version (v.2) of MathGL will be much more stable in
> ABI. It will be based on C-functions for most of plots, data handling
> and so on.

Regards
Salvatore
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