FAM transition unnecessary?

2005-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Looking at /usr/include/fam.h (the only FAM header file), it appears to provide a pure C interface only. The library has an awful lot of C++ symbols, but it seems clear that nobody's supposed to be linking to them. Changing the name is reasonable anyway, but it looks like it might be safe for it

Re: Coordinating upload of teTeX-3.0 to unstable

2005-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
>a) libkpathsea: It has a new soname, and I have not checked at all > whether this causes problems in compiling other packages. This means libkpathsea3 will no longer be available in unstable, right? I have attempted to check whether this could cause any trouble in transitions to testing (by l

glibc bug 318429 holding up C++ transition

2005-08-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
libgc, apt, fam, and goodness knows what else FBTFS due to this bug -- which is a trivial header error -- but only on ia64. It's not clear what the right course of action is. If the "old" glibc in sid builds cleanly with gcc 4.0, almost certainly it should be uploaded with a fix for bug 318429