Hi Matthias,

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:26:43AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> As mentioned in [1] the long double data type did change from a 64bit
> representation to a 128bit representation on the alpha, powerpc,
> sparc, s390 targets with glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1 (4.1.2).  To allow
> partial upgrades, every library package not providing ABIs for ldbl64
> and ldbl128 will need to be renamed (and keeping the soname).

What does it mean to provide ABIs for both of these?  How should a
maintainer (or an NMUer) recognize this?

Thanks,
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