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Bug#1089509: Please reconsider building libgsl-prof by default

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On 8 December 2024 at 07:44, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| Source: gsl
| Version: 2.8+dfsg-5
| Severity: minor
| 
| Looking at #503290, "it bloats the archive" was the only
| argument against building libgsl-prof by default.
| 
| I remember how there was a minor issue on the Debian mirrors
| several years ago when we had the first file > 2 GB in the
| archive (an .orig.tar). libgsl-prof is 4 MB.
| 
| It would be both more convenient for users and easier to maintain
| if libgsl-prof just gets built by default.
| 
| (I was affected by the latter with the 2.6+dfsg-2+deb11u1 LTS upload,
|  which originally hit NEW and needed a backport of pkg.gsl.prof to
|  avoid NEW.)

I think I fought that to no avail in the past. If you think you can make it
work, and can prepare a PR I would really appreciate it.

Thanks also for propagating that old CVE to stable.

Dirk

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Bug#1089509: Please reconsider building libgsl-prof by default Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2024-12-08 06:50 +0100
  Bug#1089509: Please reconsider building libgsl-prof by default Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> - 2024-12-08 07:30 +0100

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