Bug#479115: libffi4 is stopping the upgrade to gcc 4.3 4.3.0-4
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:23:38AM +0200, A Mennucc wrote:
> the original submitter of this bug marked it as wontfix.
> But I think that this bug should be addressed somehow.
Indeed, I think it should be as well
> There are 25 packages that directly rdepend on libffi4, and removing
> libffi4 has a huge usability impact on a 'unstable' install ...
> thru all dependencies, you have to uninstall almost all of gnome.
>
> I see two solutions to this lock.
>
> 1) Upload a new, separate version of libffi4 that would not
> depend on gcc-4.3-base (= 4.3.0-3)
>
> 2) BINNMU of all above 25 packages.
> In this latter case, you must be sure that all bbuildds
> are running 4.3.0-4 - when I uploaded mplayer on2008-05-03,
> this was not the case yet.
> IN particular, I am worried: maybe there is some
> rdependecy that is stopping bbuildd's from upgrading to 4.3.0-4 ;
> in that case, the only way to solve this lock is (1).
I don't know about the strict requirement of gcc-4.3-base but there are some
packages build-depending on libffi4-dev and not on libffi5-dev thus a binNMU
would not be sufficient, namely:
$ grep-dctrl -i -sPackage -FBuild-Depends libffi4-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/mi.mirror.garr.it_mirrors_debian_dists_sid_*_Sources
Package: gauche-c-wrapper
Package: jamvm
Package: sablevm
Package: squeak-vm
these should be fine though:
$ grep-dctrl -i -sPackage -FBuild-Depends libffi-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/mi.mirror.garr.it_mirrors_debian_dists_sid_*_Sources
Package: ctypes
Package: g-wrap
Package: gambas2
Package: gnu-smalltalk
Package: gnustep-base
Package: gtk-vnc
Package: lua-gtk
Package: miro
Package: pygobject
Package: python2.5
filippo
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