Bug#784009: Segmentation fault

[Niels Möller]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at bebt.de> writes:

> No, that does not work. wget would be looking for unversioned
> references to nettle-symbols, and given the choice ot two differently
> versioned ones it will not prefer either over the other.

I see. So for a really smooth transition from jessie and up, including
partial upgrades, one would need an update with nettle-2.7.x with
versioned symbols, and all packages linking explicitly with nettle
rebuilt against that version (about 30 packages, if apt-cache rdepends
libnettle4 is a good way to list them). And try to ensure all of these
packages are upgraded *before* the packages with nettle-3.1 and current
gnutls are installed.

Maybe too complicated to be worth the effort?

Are there any shortcuts, which improve the situation over the status
quo?

For clarity, I'm the "upstream" here. I'm a also debian user, but not
very familiar with debian packaging.

Regards,
/Niels

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