On Thursday 24 of October 2013 03:07:15 Michele Calgaro wrote: > >I believe that a close relationship to binutils is just a minor problem > > for users running stable version. It is very unlikely that in the updates > > for stable version of Debian/Ubuntu distribution (or backports) will be > > updated binutils, which would break dependencies. > > > >The problem is therefore only applies to users who use testing and > > unstable distributions. For such versions of distributions is not > > possible to release the "final" versions of TDE, because any time > > something can go wrong. I assume that users will always have to use > > either nightly-builds or preliminary updates for stable TDE branch. As > > was my ppa for v3.5.13.x branch. > > > >I any case, if backtraces is good even without the lib bfd, we can turn > > off WITH_LIBBFD and remove binutils- dev from tdelibs-trinity build-deps > > and tdelibs14-trinity-dev dependencies. To me this seems appropriate. > > > >Slavek > > You have more experience than me, so I leave the choice to you and Tim. > Both choices are ok for me. I usually do a full rebuild every month or two, > so in the worst case I just hold up the binutils update for a few weeks. > > Michele > Right now I push into tde-packaging commit 499de1ac: Disable WITH_LIBBFD in tdelibs on Debian and Ubuntu. We can look forward to cancel the tight dependency on binutils from the next tdelibs rebuild :) Slavek