On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Pino Toscano wrote: > On 2014-11-15 22:57, Simon McVittie wrote: >> >> Control: tags 767659 + patch >> >> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 at 10:33:42 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: >>> >>> If the new symbol is public API that (in principle) other packages could >>> use, which AFAICS it is, then I think the only solution that doesn't >>> involve bumping shlibs for everyone is a symbols file. >> >> >> The attached seems to work as desired: libpoppler-glib8 ends up with a >> dependency on libpoppler46 (>= 0.26.5-2~), but libpoppler-qt4-4 >> (which presumably doesn't use GfxFont::getAlternateName) >> still depends on libpoppler46 (>= 0.26.5). > > > Again, this is not the right approach. > > This bug *only* affects people which have upgraded just parts of > jessie/testing in the last two weeks, without all of it. > > As I asked previously: please LET ME FIX IT. I *know* how to fix it, > just had no proper time to do this.
Since more than 1.5 months have passed without any other solution appearing, is there any reason to not to go with Simon's fix, which is something that works and exists now? Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
