> Aside from the evilness of doing binNMUs of this magnitude, I doubt a > "transition" that doesn't change the SONAME will work. As soon as the > new libstdc++ is installed, every c++ app on the box will instantly > break. This means if anything happens e.g. to apt during the update, the > system will get into a very nasty state. I don't think this is worth it. > > If we need to change the SONAME, then there's no binary compatibility > anyway... > > As willy mentioned in his other email, if other distros want binary > compatibility, they should follow what Debian is doing (on hppa), since > Debian was there first :-)
*Plants flag here* c.