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Future of the amd64 gcc-3.4/gcc4 archive - New archive location



It has been announced that the debian-amd64 project will move from the 
current alioth machine to a new host soon. 

The amd64 gcc-3.4/gcc-4.0 archive will not move to that new host. 

Instead, it will be rebuilt from scratch with the newly released gcc-4.0 
and reuploaded to a different project on alioth. This process 
will take a few days. During this period, the gcc-3.4/gcc-4.0 archive 
will not be available. I apologize for the inconvenience, but alioth
is low on disk space and consequently the old archive has to be deleted
before the new files can be safely uploaded.

The rebuilt gcc4 archive will be accessible in a few days at the 
following new location:

deb http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4 unstable main contrib non-free


This will be a combined archive with binaries for both the amd64 and
the ppc64 architecture. 

In addition to 'unstable', the gcc4 archive will provide the 'testing' 
distribution (sarge) and also 'experimental' compiled with gcc4.

The main purpose of the gcc4 archive is to prepare the planned switch
to gcc-4.0 as the default compiler for the Debian etch release.

For any serious purposes, amd64 users are strongly advised to use 
the official Debian amd64 archive from the debian-amd64 project -
_not_ the amd64/gcc4 archive. 

The gcc4 archive should be considered as an experimental archive which 
is for development only.

Regards
Andreas Jochens



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