[pkg-boost-devel] Bug#793222: boost1.55: change of type in system_error might break with GCC-5

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Heya,

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:33:10 +0000 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:boost1.55
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid stretch
> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: gcc-pr66145
>
> GCC PR libstdc++/66145 is a regression in GCC 5 which won't be fixed
> upstream in time for the GCC defaults change.  The work around is to
> rebuild the affected packages after GCC 5 is the default compiler.
> Please look at the code and decide, if the package is affected. If
> not, please just close the issue.  If it's a real issue, I'll add
> the packages affected to libstdc++6's Breaks attributes, with the
> version of the package at the time of the defaults change.
>
> See https://wiki.debian.org/GCC5#libstdc.2B-.2B-_c.2B-.2B-11_incompatibilities_.284.9_and_5.29
> for further information.
>
> To build with GCC 5,install the gcc, g++, gfortran, ... packages
> from experimental (apt-get -t experimental install g++).
>

This is an issue, please add breaks. The affected packages would then
have to migrate to boost1.58 with new ABI and everything should then
unbreak again.

I will not support boost1.55 rebuild with C++11 abi, or even rebuild
with new libstdc++ for that matter.

Regards,

Dimitri.