Re: Bug#794964: gettext: must redo libstdc++ ABI transition because not done right
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 10:21:23PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Santiago Vila dixit:
>
> >In the meantime there is nothing to fix because there is not a *single*
> >package in debian linked against this library.
>
> … wait, what? Why is the package then installed on all systems, even
> in the supposedly clean and minimal buildd chroot?
The library was included in gettext-base but it was splitted to its
own package in version 0.18.1.1-6 and a compatibility dependency was
added.
We could drop this dependency for stretch, yes, but even in such case
you could still ask "why gettext-base is installed on all systems,
even in the supposedly clean and minimal buildd chroots".
I don't have an answer for that, but for very slow systems like m68k
it is probably not a good idea to have a buildd chroot too much clean
and minimal. You would spend a lot of time installing and uninstalling
debhelper and its dependencies over and over again.
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