On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 16:56, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 02:13:18PM -0800, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
> > * Package name    : rumur
> >    Version         : 2020.01.11-1
>
> > Changes since the last upload:
> >
> >    * New upstream release.
>
> Hi!
> I'm afraid your package fails autopkgtests, due to a bogus dependency on
> non-existing "libgmp".
>
> In the test control file, you declare:
> Depends: build-essential, libfl2, libgmp, python3 (>= 3.6), rumur
>
> on the other hand, the built package already has:
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgmp10, libgmpxx4ldbl,
> libstdc++6 (>= 9)
> with correct dependencies.
>
> Ie, you don't need to specify that explicitly, as it's error-prone, and
> will
> get out of sync the moment libgmp bumps its soname.  Thus, you can just
> drop
> that dependency -- requiring rumur itself will pull in its deps.


Thanks for the quick reply. The autopkgtests actually need the GMP headers
as well as .so. So I guess I need libgmp-dev? Or does this need an explicit
major version in the package name as well?

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