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

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:32:56PM -0800, Diane Trout wrote:
> I think we'd need to use the Built-Using tag? I haven't used that
> before.

No, that's needed when doing static linking for GPL compliance (and
other kind of things, but all related to static linking that thanks god
is not a topic here...

> (Though doing that would push htslib into NEW).

Please worry not about NEW, I've got contacts with ftp-master and can
get stuff out fairly quick (after a respectful time passed, like a week
at least).

> > And there is another action item--
> > TODO update the htslib package to the latest release.
> 
> Very true.... I did try building 1.6 and there was a problem with
> running tests that I haven't investigated yet.

Let me recommend adding the symbols file and getting it right before
doing 1.6, so symbols new in 1.6 are correctly versioned.

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