[Pkg-kde-talk] C++ ABI transition

Christopher Martin Christopher Martin <christopher.martin@utoronto.ca>
Sun, 15 May 2005 10:27:29 -0400


On May 12, 2005 10:31, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> The C++ ABI transition to GCC 4.0 is happening for Etch and Ubuntu
> Breezy.
>
> Details are at:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2005/04/msg00153.html
>
> For KDE this means adding c2 to the packages names for libarts and
> kdelibs and removing the c102 from libqt.  So we likely end up with:
>
> libarts1c2, kdelibs4c2, libqt3-mt
>
> Hopefully that forces all KDE and Qt packages to upgrade.  Are there
> packages which depend on any kde libraries but none of the three above?

Hmmm, I've never done a survey, but it would have to a strange KDE 
application indeed. If you do run into any, though, let us know so that the 
Debian transition can deal with it appropriately ahead of time.

Good luck,
Christopher Martin