Hi Jochen, I do completely support this idea. I usually test some eigen3-dependent packages against new version. But do not rebuilt them in repos.
If you open a discussion on debian-devel, please CC me. Thanks for catching it. Anton 2016-08-18 21:34 GMT+02:00 Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]>: > Hi Anton, Leo, > > I just stumbled over the problem that we have no transition tracking for > header only libraries. If you grep for reverse build depends [1], you > get quite a number of packages with outdated builds. > > I've found [2,3] mentioning Built-Using tags, but I guess for now doing a > binNMU is probably the best way to go. So I would propose request one > now and to add a paragraph to the d/README.Source. > > I'm preparing new uploads to unstable for flann and pcl, so I will ask > for the binNMUs once they are through. > > What do you think? > > Cheers Jochen > > [1] grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends libeigen3-dev -sPackage > /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/10/msg00469.html > [3] https://wiki.debian.org/StaticLinking
