re: gmp (was:ITP: uclcommon (UCL Common Code Library))
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Ron wrote:
> > > hmm.. does this mean a bugreport is in order for the gmp3 package?
> > > It's a frontend to the mpg123 mp3 player, and a name clash waiting to
> > > happen with the GNU Multiprecision arithmetic library, (gmp1, gmp2)
> >
> > gmp2 has already taken care of this problem by changing its name to
> > libgmp2. Thus, when libgmp3 comes out, there will be no name clash.
>
> Ahh, ok.. Id been wondering about that one for a while ;-)
>
> just looking at the package list now then, we seem to have something
> of an excess of gmp packages in that case.. in particular we have
> gmp gmp2 and libgmp2 which all appear to be the same lib release but
> with different debian revisions.. I can understand keeping gmp1
> around if things may depend on it, but is there a good reason for
> keeping all those gmp2 versions in the archive? If this is now cruft
> it might be nice to sweep it out before the next release.
I've been meaning to submit a bug to ftp.debian.org on this. Feel free to
beat me to it ;-) (I am terrible about submitting bug reports)
Luck,
Dwarf
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