Bug#791286: smokegen: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed
Control: severity -1 serious

On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:14:20 +0000 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
>  - Decide if the symbols matching __cxx11 or B5cxx11 are part of the
>    library API, and are used by the reverse dependencies of the
>    library.

There is at least one such symbol: _ZN5Smoke8classMapB5cxx11E

>  - If there are no reverse dependencies, it should be the package
>    maintainers decision if a transition is needed.  However this might
>    break software which is not in the Debian archive, and built
>    against these packages.

There are many reverse dependencies.

>  - If a library transition is needed, please prepare for the change.
>    Rename the library package, append "v5" to the name of the package
>    (e.g. libfoo2 -> libfoo2v5). Such a change can be avoided, if you
>    have a soversion bump and you upload this version instead of the
>    renamed package.  Prepare a patch and attach it to this issue (mark
>    this issue with patch), so that it is possible to NMU such a
>    package. [...]

TODO


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane