package glpk

[Joao Pedro Pedroso]

Thank you Sébastien.

Please just let me know when the new version is available.

Regards,

jpp
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From: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>
Subject: Re: package glpk
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:30:50 +0200

> Le jeudi 13 juin 2013 à 17:57 +0100, Joao Pedro Pedroso a écrit :
> 
>> I would like to update python-glpk to the latest version of glpk, but
>> for that I would need your glpk* packages updated...  is there any
>> reason you are still using glpk version 4.45?  (Latest is 4.50)
> 
> I guess the only reason is lack of time from the maintainer.
> 
> I may do myself the update, unless Falk (in CC) wants to take care of
> it.
> 
> Also note that the new version has a new SONAME (the ABI changed between
> 4.45 and 4.50): this means that the upload of the new version need to be
> coordinated with the Release Team, and this can induce a significant
> delay given the number of ongoing and pending transitions. Also, since
> the API has also changed with this new release, some reverse
> dependencies will likely need to be patched (at least octave is affected
> AFAICT).
> 
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