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Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

From	Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6
Date	2018-08-03 07:40 +0200
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On 2018-08-01 13:41:32 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > That
> [the 4.0.1 source code can build both versions under discussion]
> > > seems unlikely to me. I'm not going to bother to download the
> > > source to find out, but I suspect that the 4 in Packages's "Source:
> > > mpfr4" line is spurious,
> > 
> > Agreed, I hadn't noticed this little "4" in there.  I have no idea what
> > it means.  I was only looking at (and talking about) the Debian
> > version numbers and the "4" and "6" of "libmpfr4" and "libmpfr6".
> 
> It seems plausible that someone thought it should be in there if and
> when versions 1 and 4 were being simultaneously supported around the
> time of squeeze≡testing. Just speculation.

Yes, in the past, one goal was to have the source for both MPFR
versions 2.4 (mpfr) and 3.0 (mpfr4) at the same time in sid.
IIRC, this kind of things was common at that time.

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What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2018-07-31 00:40 +0200
  Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-31 02:30 +0200
    Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-07-31 16:10 +0200
      Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-07-31 18:20 +0200
        Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-07-31 22:30 +0200
          Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-01 20:50 +0200
            Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-08-03 07:40 +0200
      Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-08-03 07:30 +0200
  Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6 Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2018-08-03 07:20 +0200

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