> Because you have no clue what you are talking about. The problem is that people who have a clue are proposing solutions that would break existing packages and would cause the user to recompile everything he has compiled on his own. Furthermore, they don't explain what is wrong with the approach of people that are trying to solve the problem in the best way. The same is happening with GTK and libpng (that, *of* *course* can be solved without recompiling packages even though it might require modifying either GTK, ld.so, dpkg or libpng). The problem with this approach is that it saves the maintainer's time, but wastes users' time, which is not good. Users now have to either recompile all packages that use C++ or GTK or alternatively find out how to correctly fix the problem (as opposed to just taking the easiest route, that appears to be the Debian way). Anyway, I'm trying to implement it. The only problem that I noticed is that things like CORBA_string__free are mistaken as v2 ABI symbols. However it seems possible to accurately identify v5 ABI symbols (of course not 100% accurately for every possible library but probably for all the ones in Debian) so it should be possible to work around that. OTOH, I found out that with a C program scanning is fast enough that we can just scan packages without checking dependencies first.
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