On 4 April 2017 at 10:45, James Cowgill wrote: | Package: libgsl2 | Version: 2.3+dfsg-1 | Severity: normal | | Hi, | | As a followup from the thread on debian-backports[1], please can you | move libgslcblas.so from libgsl2 into a separate package. This will | allow clean upgrades without conflicts when the SONAME of gsl is changed | and would have avoided the current backports uninstallability situation. | See policy 8.1 for more info about this. | | This may result in a transition if there are any packages in the archive | which use libgslcblas.so, because they will need their dependencies | updating.
I have maintained GSL for 18 years. The soname changed once. Besides, upstream is now largely stable, releases happen way fewer than before. To be this is an issue in search of a problem, as opposed to an actual problem. I don't really agree with the assessment and would rather not do this. Dirk | Thanks, | James | | [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2017/03/msg00027.html | | x[DELETED ATTACHMENT signature.asc, application/pgp-signature] -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
