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Re: Procedure reminders on updating a lib package for a C++ ABI change



On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:22:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:44:03PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> >> I have a (probably very stupid) question:

> >> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:09:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

> >> > If one of your packages needs to be transitioned, DO NOT upload it before
> >> > the C++ libraries it depends on have successfully made the transition.

> >> Is there an easy way to find out which of the libraries a package
> >> depends are C++ libraries, and which are not?

> > grepping for libstdc++ in the deps is usually a good indicator, although
> > apparently that will cause false-positives *and* false-negatives. :/  You
> > could also try grepping for '::' in the -dev package's headers, which may be
> > more reliable. :)

> The grep would catch cases where c++ is used but not exported. See the
> libGLU stroy in this thread for an example. I think the libstd++ false
> positives would be caused by the same.

$ grep :: /usr/X11R6/include/GL/glu.h 
$

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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