Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999
Adam Heath writes:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Christian Kurz wrote:
>
> > > > > Package: libg++272 (main)
> > > > > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
> > > > > 47212 [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
> > > >
> > > > Here we need the help from the M68K-Team to find the bug and a solution
> > > > for it.
> >
> > > This is a more general issue. Currently even on i386 libg++272 does
> > > not build with a gcc272, which was built on potato. We would need a
> > > glibc-2.0 based build environment, I doubt this is worth the
> > > trouble. Currently there are only the following packages dependant on
> > > libg++272:
> >
> > > netscape & communicator
> >
> > > and optimizer (Does not compile with gcc-2.9x and egcs). The
> > > maintainer wanted to remove this package for the slink release. But
> > > it's still there ...
> >
> > So, can we surely remove the package without breaking much stuff? What
> > does the maintainer say about this issue?
>
> Um, removing the package will make netscape not function. Do we really want
> to do that(the netscape maintainer).
misunderstanding: I assume, that netscape does not need libg++272-dev
and g++272. So if optimizer is removed, these two packages are not
needed anymore. I doubt that netscape is built on a Debian system, but
you'll never know ;-)
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