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Bug#785376: transition: nettle



On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 14:43:51 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:

> There's a new major release of the GNU Nettle cryptolibrary (stabilized at 
> version 3.1.1) that I'd like to upload to unstable.
> 
> I've tried building all depending packages found on 
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-nettle.html and all compile 
> with the new version without source changes except libgnutls28 and lsh-utils, 
> for which patches have been prepared, and the Haskell packages, the virtual 
> package dependencies I do not comprehend, so I'll have to check with the 
> Haskell maintainers first.
> 
Why does nettle not version its symbols?  For such a low level library
(especially one that seems to break its ABI regularly) that seems like a
fairly major oversight.

Cheers,
Julien

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