Re: Intend to NMU jikes
On 5 Nov 2001, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> The more serious issue, though, is: autobuilders will build jikes
> against the libstdc++3 version in unstable, and the resulting binary
> will depend on it. That is it will depend on libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-1)
> on mips, libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-2) on alpha, etc. And testing has
> 1:3.0.2-0pre010922 currently, so -- guess what -- jikes won't get into
> testing still.
It will get into testing when all the libs it depends on are in testing.
Please, go learn how testing works.
> I grew bored with the second option and resorted to cheating: I forced
> the dependency on libsdtc++3 down via shlibs.local. This is evil
> insofar as it breaks your program if it relies on functionality
> introduced between 3.0.2-0pre010922 and 3.0.2-3. I don't recommend
> this, YMMV, don't try this at home, kids.
What package was this? I'm going to file a bug.
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