[Pkg-julia-devel] Rebuild Julia against new suitesparse?

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

[CC'ing Sébastien as maintainer of suitesparse]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:09:39PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Suitesparse 1:4.4.6-1 was recently accepted in unstable.
> Libspqr and libsuitesparseconfig both got their versions bumped [1].
> 
> I think this will make julia uninstallable, but because of your
> shlibdeps magic, it should only require a rebuild (binNMU [2]).  I'd
> like to confirm this and then request a binNMU after the weekend.

Yes, a binNMU will work fine. julia appears to still be installable
in unstable; at least this mirror has both suitesparse versions:

# apt-cache policy libsuitesparseconfig4.4.5 libsuitesparseconfig4.4.6
libsuitesparseconfig4.4.5:
  Installed: 1:4.4.5-2
  Candidate: 1:4.4.5-2
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.4.5-2 500
        500 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libsuitesparseconfig4.4.6:
  Installed: 1:4.4.6-1
  Candidate: 1:4.4.6-1
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.4.6-1 500
        500 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


It seems not ideal though that the dependent packages have to schedule
individual binNMUs whenever a library undergoes an ABI transition.

@Sébastien, is it possible for the maintainer of libfoo to trigger
a binNMU for all source packages that build-depend on libfoo-dev?

Regards,
Peter