Bug#950608: gmp 6.2.0 crashes postgresql-pgmp (& others)

[Steven Robbins]

On Sunday, February 23, 2020 2:32:49 P.M. CST John Scott wrote:
> On February 23, 2020 3:11:46 PM EST, Marco Bodrato 
<bodrato at mail.dm.unipi.it> wrote:
> >Ciao,
> >
> >Il Dom, 9 Febbraio 2020 9:34 pm, Steven Robbins ha scritto:
> >> On Sunday, February 9, 2020 9:54:02 A.M. CST Marco Bodrato wrote:

> >It seems to me that all packages incorrectly using the internal
> >representation and not the documented interface of GMP where patched.
> >
> >What else stops migration of GMP to testing? Maybe a release of GMP
> >
> >explicitly saying that it breaks:
> > libmath-gmp-perl < 2.20
> > libmath-prime-util-gmp-perl < 0.51-2
> > postgresql-pgmp < 1.0.4
> >
> >is needed? So that nobody will update the library without updating also
> >the other possibly failing packages?
> >
> >Ĝis,
> >m
> 
> GMP is not migrating because this bug was marked as done by uploading
> postgresql-pgmp. However, this bug is filed against GMP, so the bug
> metadata still suggests that GMP 6.2.0 introduces this serious issue.

Right.  I have tried twice to close the bug, with no apparent effect.  Perhaps 
with Marco's suggestion of a new upload containing specific breaks will let me 
close it against a new revision of gmp.

-Steve
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