Bug#888422: libmpfr6 should add Breaks: libmpfr4

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2018-01-25 20:32:45 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 02:15:15PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On 2018-01-25 14:11:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > Mixing libmpfr4 and libmpfr6 doesn't work well:
> > > 
> > > Wasn't symbol versioning supposed to solve this issue?
> > 
> > Yes, versioning all symbols could solve this problem
> > (assuming libraries like libmpc3 don't expose mpfr internals).
> 
> Note that MPFR internals (among what could be exposed, I think) have
> not changed, so that I don't think this would even be a problem.

In that case adding symbol versions might fix the problems.

cu
Adrian

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