Hi! First of all apologies for not jumping in sooner, I'm really lagging behing almost everything nowadays :-/ On Thursday 13 August 2015 23:45:50 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: [snip] > Why does the KDE and Qt packaged depend on specific versions of GCC anyway, > Qt doesn't care about libstdc++ ABI, you can link to two different > incompatible versions and it will work fine. Qt doesn't, but it depends on ICU which does depends on the libstdc++ ABI: <https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=qtbase-opensource-src> And it needed a transition, so Qt needed to get rebuilt against it... and we got trapped. We also needed to fix symbols files too, but that's more a debianish thing than c++ code. Hope that clarifies it, Lisandro. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
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