On 8 December 2024 at 07:44, Adrian Bunk wrote: | Source: gsl | Version: 2.8+dfsg-5 | Severity: minor | | Looking at #503290, "it bloats the archive" was the only | argument against building libgsl-prof by default. | | I remember how there was a minor issue on the Debian mirrors | several years ago when we had the first file > 2 GB in the | archive (an .orig.tar). libgsl-prof is 4 MB. | | It would be both more convenient for users and easier to maintain | if libgsl-prof just gets built by default. | | (I was affected by the latter with the 2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1 LTS upload, | which originally hit NEW and needed a backport of pkg.gsl.prof to | avoid NEW.)
I think I fought that to no avail in the past. If you think you can make it work, and can prepare a PR I would really appreciate it. Thanks also for propagating that old CVE to stable. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
