Bug#910808: sagemath: Sage crashes on startup, seems to be compiled against wrong libsingular version

Adrian Bunk bunk at debian.org
Fri Oct 12 21:07:18 BST 2018


Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 libsingular4 1:4.1.1-p2+ds-2
Control: retitle -1 libsingular4 must change packagename when sonames change
Control: affects -1 sagemath

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 05:55:06PM +0200, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> It's not a bug in sagemath. The problem is that the singular library package was not renamed even though the library name changed.
> However this is only a problem for people who somehow do partial updates.

People who use testing are also victims of this kind of bugs.

If the soname of included libraries changes with every minor release, 
then the package name of the package also has to change.

Reopening and reassigning to libsingular4.

> Best,
> Tobias

cu
Adrian

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