Bug#675207: Please binNMU python-ufc against latest swig

[Johannes Ring]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:
> Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> (31/05/2012):
>> python-ufc needs to be rebuilt against the latest swig (2.0.7). Please
>> binNMU it.
>>
>>   nmu python-ufc_2.0.5-2 . ALL . -m 'Rebuild against swig 2.0.7, see #675207.'
>
> if this package has such strict dependencies on swig, why aren't they
> exposed through strict package dependencies?

You mean by adding something like "swig2.0 (>= 2.0.7)" in
Build-Depends? The thing is that UFC only depends on SWIG >= 2.0.0,
however, it will always need to be rebuilt whenever a new SWIG release
enters the archive. Can this be automated or will I need to request a
binNMU each time?

Thanks,

Johannes