Now that I am on my computer instead of the phone with unfixed security errors (just a random rant on Android security), I can add a previous bug number: #790987
Cheers, Ondrej On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, at 08:10, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi Scott, > > as far as I know I already prepared the transition and reassigned it to > release.d.o. Is this something new or just an oversight? > > Ondřej > > On August 16, 2015 12:52:36 AM GMT+02:00, Scott Kitterman > <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: > >Package: libbotan-1.10-0 > >Version: 1.10.8-2 > >Severity: important > > > >Background [1]: libstdc++6 introduces a new ABI to conform to the > >C++11 standard, but keeps the old ABI to not break existing binaries. > >Packages which are built with g++-5 from experimental (not the one > >from testing/unstable) are using the new ABI. Libraries built from > >this source package export some of the new __cxx11 or B5cxx11 symbols, > >and dropping other symbols. If these symbols are part of the API of > >the library, then this rebuild with g++-5 will trigger a transition > >for the library. > > > >What is needed (note: this is the standard libstdc++6 bug template with > >some updates/additions): > > > > - 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. > >https://people.debian.org/~doko/logs/gcc5-20150701/botan1.10_1.10.8-2_unstable_gcc5.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. > > > > - If there are no symbols matching __cxx11 or B5cxx11 in the symbols > > forming the library API, you should close this issue with a short > > explanation. > > > > - If there are no reverse dependencies, it should be the package > > maintainers decision if a transition is needed. However this might > > break software which is not in the Debian archive, and built > > against these packages. > > > > - If a library transition is needed, please prepare for the change. > > Rename the library package, append "v5" to the name of the package > > (e.g. libfoo2 -> libfoo2v5). Such a change can be avoided, if you > > have a soversion bump and you upload this version instead of the > > renamed package. Prepare a patch and attach it to this issue (mark > > this issue with patch), so that it is possible to NMU such a > > package. We'll probably have more than hundred transitions > > triggered. Then reassign the issue to release.debian.org and > > properly tag it as a transition issue, by sending an email to > > cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > > user release.debian....@packages.debian.org > > usertag <this issue> + transition > > block <this issue> by 790756 > > reassign <this issue> release.debian.org > > > > - If unsure if a transition is needed, please tag the issue with help > > to ask for feedback from other Debian developers. > > > >The libstdc++6 transition will be a large one, and it will come with a > >lot of pain. Please help it by preparing the follow-up transitions. > > > >[1] https://wiki.debian.org/GCC5#libstdc.2B-.2B-_ABI_transition > > > >Additional information: > > > >A transition is needed. Ovito will FTBFS unless both botan1.10 and > >qscintilla2 are updated (I discovered this preparing the qscintilla2 > >transition). > > -- > Ondřej Surý -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server
