Bug#797625: Bug#797623: Bug#797625: xmltooling: transition needed for g++-5 ABIs

[Simon McVittie]

On 01/09/15 17:50, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> writes:
>> Anyway, feel free to NMU these packages if that helps
>> unblocking other stuff, just don't be too concerned about the fate of
>> the current versions in unstable, expect new upstream versions after a
>> couple of weeks.
> 
> If you're changing the SONAME anyway, you don't have to do the renaming
> described here.  That's actually an even cleaner solution.

Yes, if the new SONAME is uploaded before the v5 rename, and the new
SONAME compiled with gcc < 5 has never been in Debian, then it makes the
v5 rename unnecessary.

I'm not sure how "a couple of weeks" is going to compare with the point
at which this transition becomes part of the critical path. I'll leave
the Shib stack alone for now, but I'll come back to this and NMU with
the "v5" names if it becomes a blocker for the C++ Transition of
Despair, because this process has taken long enough already.

    S