On 2008-02-06 Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:54:47PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > It simple rebuild would still break partial upgrades. > Yes, I agree. I don't think rebuilding the reverse dependencies is the > right solution. > The changelog suggests that the ABI change is un-necessary (it was an > attempt to fix a problem on windows). We could just revert the change, > but that would mean we had a different ABI from other distributions. I'm > not sure what the best solution is here. What if anything have other > distros done? Most of them probably have not experieneced the problem. Ubuntu is at 7.4, fedora devel at 7.3. > > Is it clear at all yet whether the ABI breakage is in the C++ wrapper > > libpcrecpp0 or in the main library? > Yes, it's in the C++ wrapper. That limits the problem a lot. (Etch has only a single external rdev to it.) Is there any reaction by upstream yet? I am cc ing debian-release to make sure they do not (yet) act on the rebuild request, followups probably need not go there. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
