Bug#791173: libstxxl: library transition may be needed when GCC 5 is the default

[Simon McVittie]

On 23/08/15 16:10, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 23-08-15 16:59, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> The "SONAME bump" option was only really meant to be taken if the library
>> had an upstream SONAME bump pending anyway (for instance icu and boost
>> went this route). If there is not a SONAME change already in the pipeline,
>> you should do the "v5" rename instead. My NMUs of gtkmm2.4, gtkmm3.0,
>> atlas-cpp, bullet etc. should make a reasonable template for how this works.
> 
> I have the packaging for the libstxll v5 rename mostly ready in my local
> git, I can push this to Alioth and/or NMU it to DELAYED/2 if you want.

Regardless of whether you NMU, please compare what you have done with
the Ubuntu patch at
<http://patches.ubuntu.com/libs/libstxxl/libstxxl_1.4.1-1ubuntu1.patch>
(you'll probably find it ended up identical), and send a diff against
current unstable to this bug.

If you've done the work already, and if all the library build-deps
either don't need a transition or have already started theirs, then I
would personally say you might as well NMU to an appropriate DELAYED
queue. This overall transition has broken unstable for 3 weeks already,
during which lots of packages are either uninstallable or
non-functional, and basically no C++ can migrate to testing; the sooner
we can get through it and have our distribution back, the better.

    S