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? Remi -- Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever. (Anonymous) ********************************************************************* Remigius K. Mommsen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Manchester URL: http://cern.ch/mommsen Fermilab, MS 357 voice: ++1 (630) 840-8321 P.O. Box 500 fax: ++1 (630) 840-2649 Batavia, Il 60510, US home: ++1 (630) 236-0932 ********************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
