On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:52:20PM +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 18:54:20 +0000, Eduardo Pérez Ureta > <eperez@it.uc3m.es> wrote: > > We would have one package for gcc-2.95 and other one for gcc-3.2 but > > once all programs start to be compiled with the gcc-3.2 libraries the > > gcc-2.95 libraries can be purged out of Debian. > Excuse me for butting in, but I was wondering if the plan is to remove > all earlier version of gcc from unstable once the transition is > complete? The reason I am asking is that gdb currently has problem > when used with g++-3.1 or later (known issues, I believe), and > g++-2.95 does not support things I need, so I usually wind up using > g++-3.0 with gdb. I'm not sure what I will do if Debian changes things > so that only gcc-3.2 or later can be installed, but it will certainly > make things more difficult for me with regard to debugging. I believe that the plan is to remove old vesrions of gcc from unstable once the transition is *complete*; but it is not a *complete* transition until there are no packages in the archive which build-depend on older versions of gcc. If there are packages that don't work well with gcc 3.2, however, don't wait to file the bugs. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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