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

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 21:24:17 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> tisdagen den 22 april 2014 22.12.24 skrev  Steve M. Robbins:
> > I think I understand the rationale for using the super-fine-grained symbol
> > versioning.  If someone from the debian-science-maintainers team would like
> > to maintain this file, please go ahead and commit it to the repository.
> > Unfortunately, I don't have the time to audit each release; so if left to
> > me, I will use the easy and conservative "dh_makeshlibs -V" solution.
> 
> Once the symbols file is in place, maintaining it shouldn't require very much 
> effort. As I explained, dpkg-gensymbols, which is run by dh_makeshlibs, tells 
> you about any symbol changes when you build the package. You merely have to 
> apply the generated diff to the symbols file and adjust the minium required 
> version appropriately, making the procedure more automated compared to 
> manually checking when the dependencies have to change. Running simply 
> "dh_makeshlibs -V" should be avoided as will result in unnecessarily tight 
> dependencies and therefore may delay testing transitioning.
> 
More importantly, a symbols file lets you detect when symbols go away.
dh_makeshlibs -V doesn't do that.

Cheers,
Julien
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