On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:25:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > The eigen3 maintainer and I are happy to simply rebuild affected > > packages after every eigen3 update, but Emilio considers it an upstream bug. > > Unfortunately I could not find anybody able to shed more light on the > > eigen3 topic. > > I agree that the topic seems to be more complex in general but for the > moment we need a fix for Buster and that fix is very simple - so I do > not see any reason to not fix it. You might like to reopen the relevant > bugs (I mean #868355 - I just asked for closing which was done and > #883619) with lower severity to keep on discussing for Buster+1.
Similar to packages built against static libraries, eigen3 as a header-only library gives us no chance except for binNMU all the rdeps. There are a lot of header only packages in my packaging radar, and the transition problem really brings me headache. Fortunately they won't have to much rdeps at the beginning.
