[Debichem-devel] Bug#973639: Bug#973639: closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org> (reply to Nicholas Breen <nbreen at debian.org>) (Bug#973639: fixed in gromacs 2021~beta2-1)

[Nicholas Breen]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 05:24:34PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> The SONAME of the file
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmxapi.so.0.2.0
> is libgmxapi.so.0, thus we still have a file conflict on the SONAME
> symlink libgmxapi.so.0 in both libgromacs5 and libgromacs6.

Agh, right you are.  Thanks for catching that.

> PPS: I still think that you would make your life easier with three
> separate library packages: libgromacs6, libgmxapi0, libnblib0

I'd hoped to put that off until the gmxapi/nblib APIs stabilized - right
now they're effectively coupled to a single version of the source
package overall.  But yes, definitely the correct long-term fix,
possibly short-term as well.



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Nicholas Breen
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