Re: Namespace pollution wrt gmp[123]

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Eric Leblanc wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   I just noticed tonite in Incoming a new package named gmp3, been
> a big fan of bignumber. I said to myself "great, a new gnu multiprecision
> arithmetic library. Hmm, where is the -dev? No, -dev? I'll have to file
> a bug on this. hmm, that's not a lib it's a front-end to mpg123!!!"
> 
>   There is something to be done about this. Now, should i file a bug 
> against gmp1 and gmp2 or gmp3? I think maybe gmp1 and gmp2 should be
> named libgmp1 and libgmp2. What do you think?

I have already discussed this issue with both maintainers in private.
They came up with a solution so the issue will be resolved before the
GNU Multi Precision library version 3 occurs.

Regards,

	Joey

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