Bug#791195: lttoolbox: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Aug 11 19:22:54 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 09:38:30 +0200, Tino Didriksen wrote:

> On 3 July 2015 at 15:12, Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >  - Decide if the symbols matching __cxx11 or B5cxx11 are part of the
> >    library API, and are used by the reverse dependencies of the
> >    library.
> >
> >  - If there are no reverse dependencies, it should be the package
> >    maintainers decision if a transition is needed.  However this might
> >    break software which is not in the Debian archive, and built
> >    against these packages.
> >
> 
> No transition is needed, and as upstream I would really prefer no
> transition is forced.

As upstream why does the binary package name for the library matter to
you?

Cheers,
Julien
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