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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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


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.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>