[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#797992: Bug#797992: octave: ABI transition needed for libstdc++ v5

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> [2015-09-04 10:16]:

> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 at 10:00:04 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> Looking at the C++ library build-dependencies of octave, it is
>> waiting for hdf5 (#791067) but everything else seems to be ready.
>
> Looking more closely at this, hdf5 has both a C and a C++ API, 
> and octave appears to only use the C. If this is correct, then it does 
> not need to wait for hdf5 after all.

The liboctave3 package, version 4.0.0-3 in both unstable and testing, 
depends on libstdc++6 >= 5.2.  This package does not exist in stable.  Is 
a rebuild really necessary?

Rafael