On 2018-03-08 18:48 +0100, po...@debian.org wrote: > Source: dewalls > Severity: serious > Tags: sid buster > User: debian-...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: gcc-6-rm > > Hi, > > dewalls build-depends on GCC 6. We now have GCC 7 (default) and GCC 8 > in the archive, so please make your package build with a newer > compiler (preferably the default one) again, since we'd like to > remove GCC 6 from testing before the buster release.
Hmm. The control files says: Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-exec, qbs (>=1.7), qtbase5-dev, libstdc++-6- dev, catch so I guess that libstdc++-6-dev is only provided by gcc6? I hadn't realised that. Dewalls doesn't care about the gcc versions. There are now a million libstdc++* packages in debian with all the cross ones. What is the correct generic dependency on 'current libstdc++' so I avoid causing this problem again in future. It looks like we have libstdc++6 and libstdc++-dev virtual packages. Is it OK to build-depend on just a virtual package? Perusing Policy has not made me much wiser. Is there a doc about this somewhere? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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