[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#871300: Bug#871300: libmagick++-6.q16-7: requires rebuild against GCC 7 and symbols/shlibs bump

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 08/08/17 06:38, Bastien Roucaries wrote:
> Le 7 août 2017 22:59:06 GMT+02:00, James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org> a écrit :
>> On 07/08/17 16:55, roucaries bastien wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 4:47 PM,  <jcowgill at debian.org> wrote:
>>>> Package: libmagick++-6.q16-7
>>>> Version: 8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16
>>>> Severity: serious
>>>> Tags: sid buster
>>>> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
>>>> Usertags: gcc-7-op-mangling
>>>>
>>>
>>> I need a change that break ABI, I will release a new version. Does it
>>> exist in this case a short cut
>>
>> If you are going to rename the Debian package and trigger a package
>> transition, you do not need to add any of the extra symbols/shlibs
>> stuff. You should still build-depend on gcc (>= 4:7) however - I'm not
>> sure if all the buildds use GCC 7 by default yet.
> 
>  Should i depends on g++7 for libmagick++-dev ?

I don't think you need to do that. Consumers of your library don't need
to be running gcc-7 (it should work with gcc-6 and gcc-7). Your library
does need to be built using gcc-7 so that it is compatible with both
compilers.

Thanks,
James

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