Bug#790988: bullet: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On 19/08/15 09:53, Markus Koschany wrote:
> I wonder why we cannot just rebuild the library and request binNMU's for
> the small number of reverse-dependencies

Take it up with the release team if you want to do this, but I suspect
the reasons why not will go something like this:

* binNMUs can't happen until the rdeps' other C++ dependencies have had
  their ABI transitions, so there is no guarantee that binNMUs will
  occur promptly (or succeed)

* The release team are dealing with something like 100-200 parallel
  transitions here, so are unlikely to want to spend time discussing
  whether a particular library gets to be an exception

Regards,
    S