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Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6



On 2018-08-01 13:41:32 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > That
> [the 4.0.1 source code can build both versions under discussion]
> > > seems unlikely to me. I'm not going to bother to download the
> > > source to find out, but I suspect that the 4 in Packages's "Source:
> > > mpfr4" line is spurious,
> > 
> > Agreed, I hadn't noticed this little "4" in there.  I have no idea what
> > it means.  I was only looking at (and talking about) the Debian
> > version numbers and the "4" and "6" of "libmpfr4" and "libmpfr6".
> 
> It seems plausible that someone thought it should be in there if and
> when versions 1 and 4 were being simultaneously supported around the
> time of squeeze≡testing. Just speculation.

Yes, in the past, one goal was to have the source for both MPFR
versions 2.4 (mpfr) and 3.0 (mpfr4) at the same time in sid.
IIRC, this kind of things was common at that time.

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