[pkg-wine-party] [Mingw-w64] RFC: MinGW-w64 toolchain (adoption and new packages)

[Matthias Klose]

On 19.12.2010 10:16, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:45:06 +0100, Matthias Klose<doko at debian.org>  wrote:
>> On 11.12.2010 17:40, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>>> I imagine this could mean that the gcj and gnats builds don't use the
>>> patches in the gcc-4.x-source package, and only use the tarball which
>>> won't change from one Debian version to another (e.g. 4.5.1-1 to 4.5.1-2
>>> etc.)...
>>
>> yes.
>>
>>> That
>>> seems a shame to me since the patches are useful, and it still leaves the
>>> problem of having a package build using gcc-4.5-source 4.5-1 for example,
>>> and then gcc-4.5-source being replaced with version 4.5.1-1 with a new
>>> tarball.
>>
>> no, the tarball doesn't change. it's in the .orig.tar.gz. all other
>> patches/packging are synced with the gcc-4.5 package. Nothing is lost, all
>> patches are applied.
>
> I must be misunderstanding something here then:
> % dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.0-10_all.deb|grep tar
> -rw-r--r-- root/root  52023076 2010-04-14 13:56 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.0-dfsg.tar.xz
> % dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.1-1_all.deb|grep tar
> -rw-r--r-- root/root  52073572 2010-07-31 16:20 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.1-dfsg.tar.xz
> % dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.1-12_all.deb|grep tar
> -rw-r--r-- root/root  52073572 2010-07-31 16:20 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.1-dfsg.tar.xz
> % dpkg-deb -c gcc-4.5-source_4.5.2-1_all.deb|grep tar
> -rw-r--r-- root/root  52182428 2010-12-18 13:38 ./usr/src/gcc-4.5/gcc-4.5.2-dfsg.tar.xz
>
> Surely depending on when something build-depending on gcc-4.5-source is
> built, it might be built using gcc-4.5.0-dfsg.tar.xz, but not necessarily
> rebuilt with one of the later tarballs? Once gcc-4.5-source_4.5.1-1_all.deb
> is uploaded and gcc-4.5-source_4.5.0-10_all.deb disappears from the archive,
> it would require a binNMU at least to make sure the depending packages use
> the source available in Debian, wouldn't it?

gcj-4.5 build-depend:
   gcc-4.5-source (>= 4.5.2), gcc-4.5-source (<< 4.5.3)
will explicitly break the build.