On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:25:32AM -0500, Remi Mommsen wrote: > Hi, > > Given that we have now gcc42 in 10.4/unstable (and soon also in 10.4/ > stable), I wonder if we should declare the gcc4 package as obsolete. > > The gcc4 package in 10.4/unstable is based on the pre-4.2 snapshot > 4.1.9999-20060617. In the 10.4/stable tree, gcc4 is based on 4.0.2. > > The only package depending on gcc4 is pdftk in 10.4/unstable > (maintainer cc'd). > > There seems to be no package in 10.4/stable requiring gcc4. > Therefore, I'd propose to remove gcc4 from the 10.4/stable tree once > we add gcc42, and declare the gcc4 package in 10.4/unstable as obsolete.
We haven't yet seriously addressed obsoleting packages that have -shlibs splitoffs. I suspect only the "gcc4" package (or whatever the compiler + headers is called) is technically obsolete and able to be discarded by end-users during an upgrade. The gcc4-shlibs component, if someone has indeed already compiled something against gcc4 and therefore hard-coded the dcc4-shlibs .dylib, that -shlibs package is *not* obsolete and replaceable by whatever the new one is. Actually, in keeping with the way we do other shared-library upgrades, could actually nuke gcc4 entirely (keeping only the -shlibs part), but it's sometimes difficult to adjust the .info for that...so yeah, just marking it obsolete sounds like an easy and good plan. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
