Le 10/08/2012 17:38, Tim Abbott a écrit :
The reason fplll is in Debian is as part of the effort to package Sage (sagemath.org) for Debian. So while it has no rdepends, removing it from Debian would be counterproductive towards that effort (which as I understand it, there are people working on again after a few years of inactivity on the project)
Yes, there are people working on it -- I'm one of them, and it's precisely to avoid soname conflicts between your old package and my new one that the idea of removing was raised.
I would recommend the option of just assuming nothing will actually break if we upgrade the package to the newer ABI, since that's the least work -- the package has no rdepends in Debian and I don't think it is used by many folks other than those who are using it via Sage (I'm not aware of any users outside the Sage usage).
Idem, I was thinking I should only poke upstream so they get more serious about their version numbering -- I doubt anyone would want to use a five year old program for serious research.
But I'm having a hard time getting my package sponsored because of this possibility of conflict ; that is why B.R.Link (who sponsored my eclib package -- another sage dependency) proposed this solution.
So in effect the removal is to help the effort of getting sage in debian. Snark on #sagemath