Control: tags -1 + confirmed Control: severity -1 serious On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:14:20 +0000 Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > - Decide if the symbols matching __cxx11 or B5cxx11 are part of the > library API, and are used by the reverse dependencies of the > library.
There is at least one such symbol: _ZN5Smoke8classMapB5cxx11E > - If there are no reverse dependencies, it should be the package > maintainers decision if a transition is needed. However this might > break software which is not in the Debian archive, and built > against these packages. There are many reverse dependencies. > - If a library transition is needed, please prepare for the change. > Rename the library package, append "v5" to the name of the package > (e.g. libfoo2 -> libfoo2v5). Such a change can be avoided, if you > have a soversion bump and you upload this version instead of the > renamed package. Prepare a patch and attach it to this issue (mark > this issue with patch), so that it is possible to NMU such a > package. [...] TODO Cheers, -- Stéphane
