Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sunday, Jun 15, 2003, at 15:50 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Er, no. Those binaries would work perfectly fine if you had built apt with the same C++ ABI. But I can't specify in a build-dependency "oh, and your apt must be built with the same C++ ABI". I _certainly_ can't do so retroa

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 19:17 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: This was before woody released, before there was any kind of C++ ABI transition plan, before there was even a g++-3.2 in the archive. Surely you aren't suggesting that last year's build-dependencies should have anticipated

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 18:45 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: My two questions were: 1) Why did dpkg-buildpackage wind up compiling with the wrong compiler? Isn't there a C++ transition plan that should prevent that. python-apt will, by default, use the de

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 01:40 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: If you had wanted to find out the answer before sending this to debian-devel, you would not have had to look very far. bugs.debian.org/python-apt has the answer three times over. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?

Fun with python-apt

2003-06-14 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
I've managed to get python-apt (and thus apt-listchanges) working again on my testing system. What a PITA... Anyway, I first just tried to recompile python-apt-0.5.4.3. Compile went fine, but the first attempt to execute apt-listchanges failed with a dynamic linking error. C++ API change. First,