[Debichem-devel] Bug#797743: Bug#797743: gromacs: ABI transition needed for libstdc++ v5

[Nicholas Breen]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:09:25AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Source: gromacs
> Version: 5.0.6-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: breaks ABI without a package rename
> Tags: sid stretch
> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: libstdc++-cxx11
> 
> Background[1]: libstdc++6 introduces a new ABI to conform to the
> C++11 standard, but keeps the old ABI to not break existing binaries.
> Packages which are built with g++-5 from experimental (not the one
> from testing/unstable) are using the new ABI.  Libraries built from
> this source package export some of the new __cxx11 or B5cxx11 symbols,
> dropping other symbols.  If these symbols are part of the API of
> the library, then this rebuild with g++-5 will trigger a transition
> for the library.
> 
> In the case of gromacs, std::string appears in installed headers,
> so it seems very likely that a transition is needed.

Isn't this just #791061 again?  To the best of my knowledge, nothing external
uses those.



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Nicholas Breen
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