On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:54:13AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > > BTW, I count 18 binary packages that would need a rebuild for this. This is > > a decent-sized library transition in its own right.
> We may have to recompile the rdepends of libapt anyway because of > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390189 > (recent g++ upload 4.1.1ds1-14 has a g++ regression) <sigh> This version of g++-4.1 hasn't been accepted into etch yet, and there's been no request from Matthias that we do so. Letting it into etch as a freeze exception suggests that we might have *other* packages fail to build as a result of similar ABI regressions in other libraries. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me unless someone is offering to do a full regression-test of testing using g++ 4.1.1-15. > Upstream gcc bugreport: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29289 >From this report, there's nothing to suggest the reverse-deps need to be rebuilt, only that the lib needs to be rebuilt so that the reverse-deps don't FTBFS. Is there something I'm missing? > Matthias is still waiting for a comment from upstream on this. It > maybe enough to recompile apt with the current g++, but it maybe that > the only save option is to change the soname and recompile a rdepends. If there really is reason to believe this requires an soname change, I think we should instead consider backing this patch out of g++-4.1 in unstable until after the etch release, as compiler-induced ABI changes are clearly *not* supposed to be happening during a toolchain freeze. > > > There's no API changes from APT side so just binary NMUs are enough > > > AFAIK. > > So what is this ABI change that doesn't involve API changes? > There is a API change involved. But it is backwards compatible so a > recompile will be good enough. To make use of the translated > descriptions the applications needs to be changed though. Patches are > available for aptitude, python-apt, synaptic, libapt-front (0.3). > I hope this helps and I'm sorry for the bad timing with this request :/ FWIW, this didn't answer the question "what is the ABI change?" :) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
