Bug#673538: transition: gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, libobjc

[Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org>]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> What happens if the gcc-defaults switch is finally reverted?

You'd have to schedule binNMUs on all archs where 4.7 is the default.
The same if 4.7 becomes the default compiler on more architectures, as
Matthias Klose indicated on our list.

Either way, the current state is broken, because -base is linked with
libobjc3 while -gui is mixed because it failed to built at that time,
so many GNUstep packages are unusable because they end up linking with
two ObjC runtimes.  We'll either have to fix this with a transition
(preferable for us), or backport the fixes for gnustep-base and binNMU
gnustep-gui where it is needed.

> I wouldn't bother too much gathering all involved packages, I'll just
> set up a tracker, which should determine those and the dependencies
> between them.

OK, thanks.  I'll let you know of all the issues once we have the core
packages ready.