Re: rscheme and libgmp2

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> * Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> [20011113 17:08]:
> > The only package that depends upon libgmp2, and isn't being fixed by
> > the maintainer, is rscheme.
>
> > I'd like to remove libgmp2 but the current binary of rscheme in my
> > available file depends upon it.
>
> rscheme has been adopted by Ralf Treinen and no longer depends on
> libgmp2.

Ah, thanks! I guess the new version is still in unstable (I only checked
Woody available)

>
> roxen had a build-dep on libgmp2 | libgmp3 for a while so some
> architectures built roxen with libgmp2...yeah, some packages (e.g.
> ssh-socks on arm (the package is non-free)) depend on libgmp2 but
> imho they should just be rebuilt.
>
I only checked us-main, so I guess I missed these ;-)

So, is it too early to ask for libgmp2 to be removed?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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