[Pkg-octave-devel] CXX_ABI

[Thomas Weber]

On 30/07/08 22:30 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> 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.

I changed my mind and won't push this further. If it ain't broken, don't fix
it.

	Thomas