Re: inkscape not installable from jessie-backports (depends libgsl10ldbl)
Le 03/04/2017 à 16:41, Mattia Rizzolo a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 04:37:56PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> while the libgsl discussion here in this thread died somehow and I would
>> like to help Afif installing inkskape: You did the backport
> [..]
>> I'm tempted to just upload
>>
>> inkscape (0.92.1-1~bpo8+2) jessie-backports; urgency=medium
>>
>> * Rebuild for jessie-backports.
>> * libgsl-dev is backported - rather build inkscape against the backport
>>
>> -- Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> Mon, 03 Apr 2017 16:31:03 +0200
>>
>> by reverting the change in d/control.
>>
>> That way we should enable installing latest inkscape from backport in
>> addition to other scientific software. What do you think about this?
>
> That it wouldn't be a good idea.
> Whilst it would solve Afif's problem, gsl might be used by also other
> packages in the archive and also installed in the users' system, and by
> doing so you might cause installability problems in other packages.
>
> I instead recommend tweaking gsl backport to remove the conflict against
> the old library.
>
I looked at the code. The cblas part seems to not have changed between
the two versions, so it looks like it would work to simply not ship
libgslcblas in libgsl2, and let libgsl2 depend on lbgsl0ldbl.
Regards, Thibaut.
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