On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:18:15PM +0000, Jonathan Riddell wrote:

> The new version of GMP is licenced under GNU LGPL 3.  This is
> incompatible with a number of the packages which use this library,
> notably those using Qt.

I'm sorry to hear that.

> The package needs to be reverted to an earlier version or an alternate
> GPL 2 version packaged.

I don't see any gain in reverting to an earlier version of GMP with
more bugs and fewer features.  There are packages in Debian (notably
gcc) that do rely on new features.

I guess that means this bug should be changed to a request to package
an older gmp.

-Steve

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