[Hamara-devel] Fwd: GCC 5 in stretch: what next?

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Subject: GCC 5 in stretch: what next?
Resent-Date: Sun,  6 Sep 2015 16:25:57 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 18:25:40 +0200
From: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>
To: debian-devel-announce at lists.debian.org

Hi,

With gcc-5 as default in testing[1], the worst of the transition pain
we've enjoyed for the last month is over.  However, we're not out of the
woods yet:
- some of the followup transitions are still ongoing
- some are not yet started: [2] still shows a number of open bugs
- some are not even filed: because the detection method involved
   rebuilding packages, which was not always possible until all the
   dependencies were transitioned, not all library packages could be
   tested
- some were probably missed: detecting ABI breakage is error prone, so
   we probably have some false negatives
- we will still prioritize finishing transitions and will still remove
   packages from testing when they block transitions.

What all of this means:
- if you maintain a package with an open libstdc++-cxx11 bug, please fix
   that bug ASAP
- if one of your dependencies has an open libstdc++-cxx11 bug, please
   fix that bug ASAP
- if one of your packages was rebuilt for a libstdc++ followup
   transition and the rebuild is not yet in testing, please help it
   migrate
- if one of your packages was removed from testing during this
   transition, please fix the issues that caused the removal and help it
   migrate back to testing
- as a testing or unstable user, if you see crashes due to unresolved
   symbols or other weird crashes, consider whether this may be due to
   silent ABI breakage in one of the libraries
   + Please file bugs against the crashing package.  RC for
     unresolved symbols or crashes that completely break
     the program(s).
   + If you receive such a bug for one of your packages, please
     help us determine which library caused the issue and
     reassign the bug to that library package.

Otherwise, development work in unstable can resume, until our next big
transition. The next Perl transition is currently being prepared[3]. We
will send a separate announcement with more information soon.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/55EB41BA.40803@thykier.net
[2] 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org;tag=libstdc%2b%2b-cxx11
[3] https://lists.debian.org/20150827192633.GA13448@estella.local.invalid

Cheers,
Julien, for the release team



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