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Re: Thinking about a "jessie and a half" release



On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:27:49PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some
> > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release,
> > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just
> > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates:
> >
> >  * backports kernel
> >  * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel
> >  * X drivers
> >  * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency)
> >
> > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1).
> >
> > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners
> > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on
> > the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm
> > thinking of supporting at this point.
> >
> > Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments?
> 
> Sorry to bump an old thread....
> 
> Please consider moving to Clang 3.8 or 4.0 as the LLVM front end for
> the platform.
> 
> Clang 3.5 and 3.6 are no longer maintained. The bugs we are
> discovering and reporting are being closed as "invalid" and "won't
> fix" because Clang is outside its freshness date.
> 
> Also pick up this for glibc:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17775390/clang-3-3-in-c1y-mode-cannot-parse-cstdio-header/17776548#17776548
> . Though it was first seen in Clang 3.3, its still a problem today.
> 
> Jeff
> 

Hi Jeff,

Actually, good timing to bump the thread!  Gianfranco has backported LLVM and Clang 3.8.

Cheers,
Nicholas

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