[pkg-gnupg-maint] A merge request to libgpg-error

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2023-07-28 NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:
[...]
> For libgpg-error, I made a merge request today.

> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libgpg-error/-/merge_requests/6

[Posting to Debian gnupg ML instead of salsa merge request]

Hello,

Change #1 makes ./configure patch libtool for host x86_64-*mingw32* to
change the dll name from libgpg-error-0.dll to libgpg-error6-0.dll.

* I do not get the reason for this (I understand the rationale given
  simply as "upstream does this, too").
* It seems to be the wrong place to do this, this should happen in libtool
  upstream.
* It tightly couples buildability of the libgpg-error Debian package
  with a specific libtool version. It is a timebomb, i.e. libgpg-error
  would FTBFS when a new libtool version was uploaded to Debian and
  makes backporting harder. Doing this properly would have us Build-depend on 
  libtool (>= 2.4.7), libtool (<< 2.4.7.1).
  with an immediate upload/update on every libtool upstream release.

cu Andreas
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