On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 16:28:51 +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote: > Dear Julien Cristau, you wrote: > > Control: severity -1 serious > > Control: tag -1 confirmed > > > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 20:47:28 +0200, Frank B. Brokken wrote: > > > > > > - Rebuild the library using g++/g++-5 from experimental. Note that > > > > most likely all C++ libraries within the build dependencies need > > > > a rebuild too. You can find the log for a rebuild in > > > > https://people.debian.org/~doko/logs/gcc5-20150701/ > > > > Search for "BEGIN GCC CXX11" in the log. > > > > > > > > - Decide if the symbols matching __cxx11 or B5cxx11 are part of the > > > > library API, and are used by the reverse dependencies of the > > > > library. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > Thx for the bug report. Right now I'm abroad, and unable to do any > > > maintenance > > > until I'm back by the end of July. By then I'll have a close look at the > > > points you're mentioning. > > > > > > Thanks again! > > > > > Confirmed that public symbols are changing with the g++ 5 rebuild; a > > patch to rename the library package is available at > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bobcat/3.25.01-2ubuntu2 > > Thanks for the bug report. We're still working out how to handle this > issue. The plan is to do an so bump to version 4 of the bobcat library. Some > time ago (early August) Debian's experimental distro offered a g++ 5 release > that indeed created a library in which the public symbols were changed. We > think that bumping the so version, in line with an earlier e-mail by Matthias, > effectively handlres the new symbols issue. However, by now the g++ 5 compiler > no longer is available in Debian's experimental distribution, but only in > Debian's stretch (testing) and sid(unstable) distros, and these compilers > don't use the new naming conventions. Right now Tony and I are figuring out a > strategy for handling this complication, but we're not done yet. This reaction > is primarily to inform you that we're not ignoring the issue, but in fact are > actively trying to find an adequate solution. > You make it sound way more complicated than I believe it is...
Cheers, Julien
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