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Re: GMP transition: 4.3.2 to 5.0.1?



Hi Adam,

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 08:15:44PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-19 at 04:48 -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 01:39:39PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > Have any of the reverse-dependencies been test-built against the new
> > > version?  Does the move to 5.0.1 imply any source changes being required
> > > for reverse-dependencies, or "just" rebuilds?  (I say "just" as there
> > > appear to be around 350 r-dependencies, including at least five from the
> > > GCC suite).
> > 
> > I haven't done any test-builds.  Since the -dev package changed name,
> > I presume that "just rebuild" won't work; rather, the sources have
> > to edit their build-deps.
> 
> Out of interest, why is the -dev package versioned?

Thinking about this more, I can't think of any reason for it to be
versioned.  Especially since two GMP versions cannot coexist in the
archive.  

So I think I'll upload with simply libgmp-dev.

Are you ready for the new upload?

Thanks,
-Steve

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