Re: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:22:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 05:04:12PM +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> > Colin Watson wrote:
> > >Judging from conversation on debian-glibc, it sounds like AMD64 really
> > >wants to use gcc 3.4, which is not tenable for sarge because it involves
> > >an API change (see Matthias Klose's recent mail to debian-release and
> > >debian-glibc).
>
> I meant ABI rather than API here, sorry.
[snip]
> 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?!
Regards: David Weinehall, happily staying away from c++
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