On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 12:21:05 -0700 Ted Percival <t...@tedp.id.au> wrote: > So the solution might just be to add the versioned Build-Depends: g++ (>= 4:7) > and rebuild to get the old symbols back into the library, rather than bumping > the soname.
That reminds me of https://bugs.debian.org/911090 where On 2018-10-22 15:13, Matthias Klose wrote: > The compat symbol was in GCC 7, and then removed in GCC 8. So, yes, best do a proper transition ... unless you can easily enumerate the affected packages and add Breaks against them. How many more of these time bombs do we have lingering in our packages? Andreas