On Tuesday 02 July 2013 21:46:09 Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Hello, > > This message is addressed to all maintainers of a package that > build-depends on gmp. > > Yesterday's upload (gmp version 5.1.2+dfsg-2) changed the location of > gmp.h from /usr/include to /usr/include/$(multi-arch-triplet). This > was done to fix bug #675577. This change *should* be invisible, since > the compiler searches by default /usr/include/$(multi-arch-triplet). > I tested a few packages and found they built fine. However, I've been > informed of one package that does fail to build with this change. > Since there may be other such packages, I thought I'd send out this > note to alert everyone.
Thanks Steve for the notice. As stated in [0], next time please follow a different scheme for handling this. My suggestion would be: - Package the new version and upload it to experimental. - Mail the reverse dependencies maintainers giving them at least a month to test. - Do the transition. This holds for most cases, maybe except a security one. [0] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675577#36> > Secondly: I removed the libtool .la files. They had been 'emptied' > since 2011, so hopefully this causes no issue. Cool, thanks :-) -- Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with. Unknown - http://www.linfo.org/q_unix.html Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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