On Jun 4, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On Jun 4, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > >> 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 > > Couldn't one assume that if there is no package declaring a > dependency on the -shlibs package, that it is save to remove the > entire package, i.e. including the -shlibs part?
I guess one question is: has there ever been a package declaring a dependency on the -shlibs part? -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
