On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:24:15 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > Well I tried to mention some ways this was suboptimal in my previous > mail. Probably too late to do anything about it right now though, other > than decide if we want to revert. > OK, I might see another way out. As far as I can tell, the incompatibilities introduced in gmp 5 are the removal of mpn_bdivmod and mpn_neg_n, and the rest of the functions should stay compatible between gmp 4 and gmp 5. If that's not true, please do tell me, as the below is based on that assumption.
So it *looks* like having libgmp.so.3 and libgmp.so.10 coexist in an address space should be safe (although it'd probably make sense to have both libraries linked with -Bsymbolic to be extra careful). We can then re-introduce gmp 4.3.2 as a separate source package (e.g. gmp4), building *only* the libgmp3c2 binary package. Then get both libgmp3c2 and libgmp10 in testing for a while, to avoid a massive transition of all reverse deps at once. Then at a later point once everything's rebuilt and transitioned to testing, we can get rid of 4.3.2. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110318143045.gm12...@radis.liafa.jussieu.fr
