[Matthew Wilcox] > I got sick of listening to people discuss the gcc 3.2 transition in an > uninformed manner. So I've whipped up a transition plan which will > hopefully get us from A to B without causing too much pain. Haha. > I'm entirely fallible and I don't pretend to understand all the issues > involved with doing the transition. But by writing down a plan at > least it can be updated and fixed before we have to start _doing_ > the transition. > > Comments and corrections welcomed.
When this was discussed in June, one of the suggestions was to include the ABI format (compiler name/version) in the library package name and soname. Did you consider it when you wrote your transition plan? Check the debian-devel thread "C++ library packaging" starting 2002-06-27, <URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200206/msg01814.html>.