Bug#629477: transition: gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, libobjc

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

At Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:39:10 +0200,
Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:13:47 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:03:58AM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > > We would like to carry out a GNUstep transition
> > > (libgnustep-base1.20->1.22; libgnustep-gui0.18->0.20) *and*
> > > libobjc2->3, ideally coinciding with the migration of gcc-defaults to
> > > testing (or even better, before that).
> > 
> > That seems pretty complex to check with our existing tools.  But
> > to get an overview, can you please tell us the relevant
> > development packages people are build-depending on?  And a list of
> > affected packages to check the result.
> > 
> Ping?

Apologies for the delay.

I'm afraid I don't understand the question -- do you want a list of
other (non-GNUstep) libraries possibly affecting the transition
(poppler, ffmpeg, etc.) or you'd like to know which of the GNUstep
packages depend on gnustep-gui and which only on gnustep-base?

The GNU ObjC runtime (libobjc3) doesn't have a development package;
any GNUstep package built with the current toolchain ends up linking
against it, which inevitably leads to a crash when the program is
being run.