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Re: Removing gcc-4.4:m68k from debian-ports



On 2016-01-21 11:17, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Aurelien!

Hi,

> I just debugged a problem with debootstrap on m68k which was failing
> due to libgcc2 being too old. Turned out, debootstrap was installing
> an outdated version of libgcc2 from gcc-4.4.
> 
> The problem was fixed very easily by just installing libgcc2 from gcc-5
> which is built for m68k as well. Going through the archive, it seems
> that gcc-4.4 has been removed for all architectures except m68k.

We have a script which removes packages from debian-ports when they are
removed from the main archive. That said it is disabled on m68k, as at
some point m68k was lagging and it was removing the default compiler.

> Is there a reason why we are still keeping it and if not, can you
> remove gcc-4.4 from the archive completely?

I have just removed it, it will be visible after the next mini-dinstall.

Aurelien

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