Bug#745233: libhogweed2: should have versioned depend on newer libgmp10

Ivo De Decker ivo.dedecker at ugent.be
Sun Apr 20 10:55:09 UTC 2014


Hi Magnus,

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 01:14:18AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> lördagen den 19 april 2014 15.21.21 skrev  Ivo De Decker:
> > The new nettle upload contains a version of libhogweed2 which uses symbols
> > from the new version (6.0.0) of libgmp10, but it doesn't have a versioned
> > dependency. This means it's possible to install libhogweed2 with an older
> > version of libgmp10, but this doesn't work.
> 
> That kind of thing should never happen; that's what we have shlibs and symbols 
> files for. Do you know if there's any reason that libgmp10 doesn't include a 
> symbols file and/or declare new a minimum version in it's shlibs file?

I agree that this shouldn't happen, but I don't know why libgmp10 doesn't
include symbols or shlibs files that enforce this dependency. I'm adding a Cc
to to gmp maintainers.

Cheers,

Ivo




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