[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#879886: libhts2: libhts2 needs to handle ABI changes

[Afif Elghraoui]

على الجمعـة 27 تشرين الأول 2017 ‫09:55، كتب Mattia Rizzolo:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:52:31AM -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
[...]
> 
> What would have been good to prevent the current breakage that has been
> brought to my attention (samtools), what happened is that the newest
> version of samtools picked up a symbol that was not in the original
> libhts2.  Remember that adding symbols is not an ABI break.  Though,
> that requires using a versioned dependency, which in a perfect world
> would be provided (forced?) by a proper htslib packaging.
> 
> 

Would adding a symbols file back to the htslib packaging be an
alternative solution to manually overriding ${shlibs:Depends} in
samtools, bcftools, and python-pysam? The build-depends in these
packages are always versioned appropriately.

regards
Afif

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