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Re: 3.2 transition



On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:56:17PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:00:32PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:54:32PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > > We may need to add in our release notes: "We broke ABI, please recompile 
> > > from source", 
> > Well, yes. "We updated GCC which breaks the C++ ABI; if you have
> > complicated C++ programs, please rebuild them."
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^
>  this should read "any" instead of complicated,
>  shouldn't it?

No. You only need to do so if you link against C++ libraries other
than the standard libraries and Qt. libapt-pkg for example. I presume
the people who actually write release notes can come up with a better
phrasing; but "any" isn't correct.

Cheers,
aj

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