Hi, With gcc-5 as default in testing[1], the worst of the transition pain we've enjoyed for the last month is over. However, we're not out of the woods yet: - some of the followup transitions are still ongoing - some are not yet started: [2] still shows a number of open bugs - some are not even filed: because the detection method involved rebuilding packages, which was not always possible until all the dependencies were transitioned, not all library packages could be tested - some were probably missed: detecting ABI breakage is error prone, so we probably have some false negatives - we will still prioritize finishing transitions and will still remove packages from testing when they block transitions. What all of this means: - if you maintain a package with an open libstdc++-cxx11 bug, please fix that bug ASAP - if one of your dependencies has an open libstdc++-cxx11 bug, please fix that bug ASAP - if one of your packages was rebuilt for a libstdc++ followup transition and the rebuild is not yet in testing, please help it migrate - if one of your packages was removed from testing during this transition, please fix the issues that caused the removal and help it migrate back to testing - as a testing or unstable user, if you see crashes due to unresolved symbols or other weird crashes, consider whether this may be due to silent ABI breakage in one of the libraries + Please file bugs against the crashing package. RC for unresolved symbols or crashes that completely break the program(s). + If you receive such a bug for one of your packages, please help us determine which library caused the issue and reassign the bug to that library package. Otherwise, development work in unstable can resume, until our next big transition. The next Perl transition is currently being prepared[3]. We will send a separate announcement with more information soon. [1] https://lists.debian.org/55EB41BA.40803@thykier.net [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org;tag=libstdc%2b%2b-cxx11 [3] https://lists.debian.org/20150827192633.GA13448@estella.local.invalid Cheers, Julien, for the release team
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