Re: Bug#430266: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-23 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Discussed in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg01173.html There's not a lot of discussion there -- just an announcement really. With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the 'long double' data type did change

re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-23 Thread Ron
Hi, Looking at my packages that doko flagged for this transition, I see at least one place where on some platforms (though not for any Debian arch) a long double may be passed to an api function as a vararg. If there are other such packages they may not have been caught by his scan for 'long

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the `long double' data type did change from a 64bit representation to a 128bit representation on alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390. To allow partial upgrades of packages, we will

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-02 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Matthias Klose wrote: I plan to submit bug reports with severity `serious' for all source packages matching the above description (although if somebody wants to handle this transition, please go ahead). cfortran Probably a false positive, as it is an arch:all package (just a header file).

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: php4-dev This package is EOL and will not be fixed for this transition (assuming it applies). php5-dev This is a false positive, the only use of 'long double' in the php5 header files is in a macro definition. Please exclude

ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Matthias Klose
With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the `long double' data type did change from a 64bit representation to a 128bit representation on alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390. To allow partial upgrades of packages, we will need to rename all packages holding libraries with the long double data type in

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Matthias Klose wrote: Attached you can find a list of packages with header files in /usr/include matching 'long *double'. [...] gettext I don't understand this, as grep double `dpkg -L gettext | grep include/` outputs nothing. Is this a false positive? [ Please keep

Re: ldbl128 transition for alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390

2007-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: With glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2 (and gcc-4.2), the `long double' data type did change from a 64bit representation to a 128bit representation on alpha, powerpc, sparc, s390. To allow partial upgrades of packages, we will need to