[parisc-linux] gcc-3.3 configuration
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Thu, 22 May 2003 10:24:05 -0400
> 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.