On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 17:42:08 +0200, Stephan Schreiber wrote: > Quoting Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>: > >However if this is planned it might be worth doing so soon: on ia64 > >about 2750 source packages depend on libunwind7 which changed its soname > >to libunwind8. > > I can't find any problem with libunwind8 on ia64. Where is the bug report? > The libunwind7/8 package isn't a particular thing of ia64; there are > builds of it on amd64, armel, armhf, i386, and powerpc as well. > Any package which depends on libunwind7 needs an update of the > libunwind dependencies for *any* arch. > So this is red herring. > It's not really. libunwind has *3* reverse dependencies on amd64 and i386. It has over 4000 on ia64. It has 0 on all other archs. So we're not exactly talking about the same amount of work. Cheers, Julien
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