Bug#797623: opensaml2: transition needed for g++-5 ABIs

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Aug 31 22:34:43 UTC 2015


Source: opensaml2
Version: 2.5.3-2.1
Severity: serious
Justification: breaks reverse-dependencies
Tags: patch

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 opensaml2, std::string appears in header files that
get installed, so it seems very likely that a transition is needed.
The transition consists of renaming the library package, adding a
v5 suffix. A patch is available in Ubuntu,
<http://patches.ubuntu.com/o/opensaml2/opensaml2_2.5.3-2.1ubuntu2.patch>.

These follow-up transitions for libstdc++ are not going through exactly
the normal transition procedure, because many entangled transitions are
going on at the same time, and the usual ordered transition procedure
does not scale that far. When all the C++ libraries on which this library
depends have started their transitions in unstable if required, this
library should do the same, closing this bug; the release team will deal
with binNMUs as needed.

In the case of opensaml2:

* boost has started its transition
* liblog4shib has started its transition
* libxml-security-c-dev has started its transition
* libxerces-c-dev is not believed to need a transition
* xmltooling is believed to need a transition but has not started yet
  (I haven't got as far through the alphabet as filing a similar
  xmltooling bug yet)

so I think you need to wait for xmltooling before proceeding.
However, the maintainers are the same; please consider this advance
warning of a similarly RC xmltooling bug, and if you fix xmltooling
before I get that far with mass-bug-filing, please check this package
next.

The package is likely to be NMU'd when it becomes ready if there is no
maintainer response, with a patch based on the one in Ubuntu. The
release team have declared a 2 day NMU delay[2] for packages involved
in the libstdc++ transition, in order to get unstable back to a usable
state in a finite time.

    S

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/GCC5#libstdc.2B-.2B-_ABI_transition
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/08/msg00000.html



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