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Re: many packages automremoval due to GCC 8



On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:10:02AM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> with a quick look, it seems that several packages are impacted by
> new/removed symbols with gcc8

Please provide some examples.

> I think that in this case, symbol files must be regenerared for those
> packages, however I do not really know:
> 
> 1) how to manage symbol files

Generally speaking, I wish people would learn to handle those before
starting to maintain such packages.  Hopefully here is the case as well.

> 2) how to manage the gcc7/gcc8 symbol files if those are different for
> each gcc....

What kind of symbols are you talking about?  gcc-8 shouldn't have broken
anything, so at most they should be compiler-specific leaks of some
implementations of c++ templates or stuff like that.

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