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

[Johannes Ring]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun  4, 2012 at 08:43:54 +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
> That sounds broken.  Why is that necessary?

When you run DOLFIN, efficient low-level C++ code (UFC) is
automatically generated. This is done using SWIG and the SWIG version
needs to be the same that was used when building UFC and DOLFIN.

I'm Cc'ing the DOLFIN list to get more input on this.

Johannes