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Re: llvm-toolchain-8 backport to buster, or wait for 10?



Hi Gianfranco!

Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> writes:

>  ack!
>
>     Il domenica 25 agosto 2019, 16:03:44 CEST, Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> ha scritto:  
>  
>  Dear Sylvestre and Backports Team,
>
> A user of irony-mode (libclang-powered Emacs minor-mode) is struggling
> to use newer version of libclang on buster (tldr; he's attempting to
> use 10, and I wrote I'd be happy to backport 8, because we have to
> wait until 10 is released and migrates to testing before official
> Debian support on buster is possible):
>
>   https://github.com/Sarcasm/irony-mode/issues/543
>
> If llvm-toolchain-10 is just around the corner and will be one of the
> versions released with bullseye then it makes sense to wait until its
> released.
>
> Otherwise, would someone else like to maintain a buster bpo of
> llvm-toolchain-8?

Thanks again for backporting llvm-toolchain-8!

Llvm-toolchain-9 is now in testing.  Would you please backport that one
too?  I switched irony-mode_1.4.0-1 to use it, and this package is also
now in testing.  IIRC the latest stable version of llvm-toolchain is
also used for libmesa, so it will also be useful for an eventual libmesa
buster-backport.

Thanks,
Nicholas

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