Bug#675207: Please binNMU python-ufc against latest swig

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Jun  4, 2012 at 08:43:54 +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:
> > Johannes Ring <johannr at simula.no> (31/05/2012):
> >> python-ufc needs to be rebuilt against the latest swig (2.0.7). Please
> >> binNMU it.
> >>
> >>   nmu python-ufc_2.0.5-2 . ALL . -m 'Rebuild against swig 2.0.7, see #675207.'
> >
> > if this package has such strict dependencies on swig, why aren't they
> > exposed through strict package dependencies?
> 
> You mean by adding something like "swig2.0 (>= 2.0.7)" in
> Build-Depends? The thing is that UFC only depends on SWIG >= 2.0.0,
> however, it will always need to be rebuilt whenever a new SWIG release
> enters the archive. Can this be automated or will I need to request a
> binNMU each time?
> 
That sounds broken.  Why is that necessary?

Cheers,
Julien
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