Matthias Klose, le Thu 25 Dec 2014 10:17:19 +0100, a écrit : > On 12/25/2014 10:09 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Matthias Klose, le Thu 25 Dec 2014 08:42:05 +0100, a écrit : > >> please remove the upper dependency on a specific gcc package version. I > >> can't > >> see a reason why the package shouldn't work with GCC 4.8.3, but not with > >> GCC > >> 4.8.4. The dependency on the major gcc version is already there. > > > > Because the plugin ABI compatibility is not guaranteed between versions > > of gcc. A mere binNMU is needed to fix this. > > in this case, how do you guarantee this when updates from the branch are > taken?
By hoping that branch updates do not break the ABI. What do you propose instead? > so you would have to depend on the exact version that the package is built > with, which then again might be too tight. Yes. Until gcc provides some more relaxes guarantees over plugin ABI, it'll be difficult. The only alternative I can see is dropping the support for gcc plugins in Debian. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
