Bug#831211: ucommon: FTBFS with GCC 6: dh_makeshlibs: failing due to earlier errors

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 03/08/16 02:02, Peter Colberg wrote:
> Dear Debian Release Team,
> 
> twinkle has been marked for autoremoval from testing on 2016-08-27 due
> to this FTBFS. Building ucommon with GCC 6 instead of GCC 5 yields
> slight differences in the list of visible symbols.
> 
> How should this bug be dealt with? Is it not simply a matter of
> waiting for GCC 6 to become default, uploading ucommon with an
> updated symbols file and an ABI bump (if needed), and submitting
> binNMUs for dependent packages?

Yes.

> If so, can this bug be downgraded to severity important until then?

No. Just ping the bug to restart the timer if that becomes necessary (e.g. that
date gets closer and GCC 6 is not the default yet).

Cheers,
Emilio