[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#629477: transition: gnustep-base, gnustep-gui, libobjc

[Yavor Doganov]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 06/07/2011 01:33 AM, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> > gnustep-base/1.22.0-1 currently build-depends on gobjc (>= 4:4.6).
> > My plan was to change it to "gobjc (>= 4:4.6) [!ia64 !sparc],
> > gobjc-4.6".  Is that good enough?
> 
> no, for that case, you need to use gcc-4.6 as the driver. If you
> want to do this, maybe make the change in gnustep-make and let the
> gnustep-make package depend on gcc-4.6.

Two questions arise:

1) The modified gnustep-make package will have no trouble migrating to
   testing (before the transition even commences), so it would make
   GNUstep development in wheezy broken, just like it is now in sid.

2) Building the GNUstep packages with the non-default compiler on ia64
   and sparc is, strictly speaking, a policy violation.

If the release team does not object, we can go on and make gobjc-4.6 a
strict requirement via gnustep-make.