Comment 4 for bug 689217

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Lucas Nussbaum (lucas) wrote : Re: [Bug 689217] Re: Please backport mpich2/1.3.1-1 from natty

On 13/12/10 at 11:08 -0000, Evan Broder wrote:
> Ah, sorry - I missed the SONAME bump since the new version hasn't
> actually been published yet. In general, we do monitor both r-deps and
> r-b-deps as part of the backports testing process - see the discussion
> at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
>
> In this particular case, you're right that the r-deps won't be affected
> by the SONAME bump. However, the r-b-deps are still relevant, since the
> packages b-dep on libmpich2-dev, which does not contain the SONAME. If
> they were rebuilt with the backport installed, they would build against
> the backport, so we need to make sure that still works.

Why would they be rebuilt with the backport installed?
This wouldn't happen in LP chroots (or at least I hope so).

- Lucas