Bug#791165: libsdl-sge: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

[Matthias Klose]

Control: severity -1 normal

On 08/02/2015 01:33 AM, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 2015-08-01 22:36 GMT+01:00 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>:
>> reopen 791165
>> severity 791165 serious
>> tags 791165 + confirmed
>> retitle 791165 libsdl-sge: library transition is needed when GCC 5 is the default
>> thanks
>>
>> this is exactly what you should *not* do:
>>
>>  libsdl-sge (030809dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=medium
>>  .
>>    * Bump Policy Standars-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes needed)
>>    * Rebuild against GCC-5 (Closes: #791165)
>>    * Enable parallel compilation with dh
>>    * Fix mispelling in d/copyright (detected by lintian)
>>
>> Please rename the library package (and add a proper library version).
> 
> Why not? I already explained in the bug report why IMO we don't need a
> transition:
> 
> - no packages in Debian use the functions

sorry, didn't see this. please could you mention this with your next upload in
the changelog and then close the issue?

> In addition:
> 
> - supertransball2 is going to be NMUd in the libstdc++ transition anyway
> 
> - ruby-sdl has 200 reported installations in popcon, supertransball
> 129, infon-viewer 20 (the risk of breakage is not high, and it's in
> very unimportant packages)
> 
> - it looks to me that RT are not very happy with unnecessary /
> gratuitous transitions [1], which to me it reads as if they can avoid
> them unless really needed
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2015/07/msg00333.html
> 
> 
> Cheers.
>