[Pkg-octave-devel] CXX_ABI

[Thomas Weber]

On 30/07/08 11:09 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-07-30 00:06]:
> 
> > I'm for fixing this. We only need to upload a fixed octave version, the
> > rebuilds of the other packages can be done by the release team (with a
> > dep-wait to ensure a correct octave version).
> 
> It should be much more complicated than the way you depicted above.  First,
> we have to convince the release team that this change is really necessary
> and since it involves dozens of packages, the changes are quite low we will
> succeed. 

Hmm, as most of these packages just need a rebuild without any code changes,
we might be lucky.


> Besides, as JWE described the situation, the current set of packages in
> unstable are coherent with themselves (they all have the C++ ABI set to
> "unknown").  This should be okay for the large majority of users.

Well, the "rebuild all packages" will hit us at one point. Sure, we can do
sourcefull uploads, but hey, that's what binNMU's are for.

Besides, I fear that this might have some side-effects that we currently
don't see, so I would prefer to avoid having such a situation in Lenny.

Anyway, I'll contact debian-release.

	Thomas