Bug#883619: Bug#868355: Any reason not to simply upload ceres-solver with adjusted version of libeigen3-dev

[Mo Zhou]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:25:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > The eigen3 maintainer and I are happy to simply rebuild affected
> > packages after every eigen3 update, but Emilio considers it an upstream bug.
> > Unfortunately I could not find anybody able to shed more light on the
> > eigen3 topic.
> 
> I agree that the topic seems to be more complex in general but for the
> moment we need a fix for Buster and that fix is very simple - so I do
> not see any reason to not fix it.  You might like to reopen the relevant
> bugs (I mean #868355 - I just asked for closing which was done and
> #883619) with lower severity to keep on discussing for Buster+1.

Similar to packages built against static libraries, eigen3 as a
header-only library gives us no chance except for binNMU all the rdeps.

There are a lot of header only packages in my packaging radar, and
the transition problem really brings me headache. Fortunately they
won't have to much rdeps at the beginning.