Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6
On 2018-07-31 00:37:38 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> I just noticed that there are two packages for libmpfr:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr4
>
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr6
>
>
> Funny thing is, this is what the versioning says on those pages:
> Package: libmpfr4 (3.1.6-1)
> Package: libmpfr6 (4.0.1-1)
>
> ...ok, that's strange. Even weirder, they are both built from the same
> sources: mpfr-4.0.1-1.
No. libmpfr4 3.1.6-1 was built from mpfr4 3.1.6-1 and
libmpfr6 4.0.1-1 was built from mpfr4 4.0.1-1.
The package names are different due to ABI incompatibility
between MPFR 3.1 (which implements interfaces 4 and 5) and
MPFR 4.0 (which implements interface 6).
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