Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Matthew Rosewarne
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hi, > > As of writing, libqt3-mt ABI breakage caused serious 16 bugs (#464946 & > friends) to be reported by our users. So I think it's high time we took > some action today or tommorow to unbreak software affected. I'm concerned > about Debia

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hi, 2008 m. February 16 d., Saturday, Matthew Rosewarne rašė: > I've looked through all C++ packages (libsdtc++6 rdepends), and I think I > have a complete list of broken pacakges. They are: > > digikam > k3b > kcontrol > kdirstat > kexi > konq-plugins >

Re: splitting qt4 into pieces

2008-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Recomendations: > > Take libqt4-core, split off libqtscript4 and libqtdbus4 to its own packages > and rename libqt4-core to libqtcore4 > > keep libqt4-gui as is > > rework libqt4-sql to make it plugin based, which it supports and enable the > rest

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 08:08:17AM +, Matthew Rosewarne wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Modestas Vainius wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As of writing, libqt3-mt ABI breakage caused serious 16 bugs (#464946 & > > friends) to be reported by our users. So I think it's high time we took > > some act

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Modestas Vainius
Hi, 2008 m. February 16 d., Saturday, Pierre Habouzit rašė: > Okay that's quite a few, so the "Conflict" option sucks. Here is > another plan, tell me what you think, we put a debian specific hack in > the glibc to reenable the extern inlines for _ONLY_ the packages that > ask for it, for lenny,

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:52:01AM +, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hi, > > 2008 m. February 16 d., Saturday, Pierre Habouzit rašė: > > Okay that's quite a few, so the "Conflict" option sucks. Here is > > another plan, tell me what you think, we put a debian specific hack in > > the glibc to ree

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:58:13AM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I absolutely don't understand how that can be true. I mean it doesn't > make sense, ktorrent gets the symbol from the libc6, and it just emits > an undefined symbol because qt3 provides it at the time, there is no way > it gets it

Re: Proposal(s) for handling libqt3-mt situation

2008-02-16 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 01:22:31PM +, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > We should still look in the archive if other libraries have the > symbols and deal on a per case basis. It seems c++ libraries are the one > affected, C ones usually arent as extern inline has a different meaning > in C (especiall