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Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64



On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:11:41PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 06:47:29PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> > > This is an ABI transition. In order to cope with this, all C++ library
> > > packages will have to be renamed to *c103, the same way that they all
> > > had to be renamed to *c102 when we moved to g++ 3.3. This took a long
> > > time; the experience of the last time means that we know how to do it
> > > gracefully, but it will still take time.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Please, oh please tell me that gcc-3.5 won't force us to do a c104
> > also?!
> 
> Only if you can tell us that there are no more bugs in the C++ ABI.

Then I guess we're screwed...

*envisions c666-transition already...*

Regards: David Weinehall
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