On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:37:30AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > For the upcoming C++ ABI change, one library in xfree86 (xlibmesa-glu) > has to be built for the new C++ ABI as well. At some point xfree86 > will be replaced by xorg as well. Based on some experience with > spoons it doesn't look helpful to start both changes at the same > time. xlibmesa-glu is needed by a large percentage of C++ packages > (at least all of qt and kde), so I would like to see an xlibmesa-glu > built for the new ABI early during the C++ ABI change (i.e. build > xfree86 a last time explicitely with gcc-3.3, and xlibmesa-glu with > g++-3.4 or g++-4.0). This is one proposal, obviously wanting to > smooth the C++ ABI change. I'm happy about any other proposal which > eases the change for both.
Ubuntu is using libglu1-xorg, libglu1-dbg-xorg, and libglu-dev-xorg, with the former providing libglu1c2. Is there any reason why Debian shouldn't also do this (but s/xorg/xfree86 as above)?
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