On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 06:37:21AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > I seem to have confused myself. I have new 2.5-2 packages which should carry > the deprecated symbols, brought back for our use in the eg the Perl GSL > package. Thanks! I can confirm that libmath-gsl-perl works fine again with libgsl23_2.5+dfsg-2 from experimental. Please upload the fix to unstable too :)
For the record, the Perl GSL bindings package libmath-gsl-perl (can be made to) work without the deprecated symbols too. It just needs a rebuild, and forcing that rebuild (and the associated dependency metadata updates) is the main point of SONAME bumps. So please don't feel obliged to carry those symbols forever because of us. Any user code compiled against libgsl23 and using those symbols would of course be similarly affected, and the SONAME bump makes that visible, which is preferable to silent breakage at runtime. > You have really helpful on this -- much appreciated. My pleasure! -- Niko
