Re: gcc-3.4 upload to unstable
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:42, Falk Hueffner
<hueffner@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
> > Would it be possible to have SSP enabled in GCC 3.4? It seems that
> > SSP has been tested as much as it can be without being uploaded to
> > unstable (and passed all such tests).
>
> I would much prefer such an invasive patch to enter Debian from
> upstream. I can't however see any attempt for this patch to be
> submitted to the gcc project; there doesn't even seem to be a version
> for CVS mainline. This could be a pain in the long run. Is there
> reason to believe this will change?
Quite often there is a catch-22 situation where upstream doesn't accept a
significant patch because it requires more testing than they have time for,
and distributions don't accept it because the upstream hasn't done so. Both
the distributions and the upstream wait for each other and nothing happens.
Currently Gentoo is the only serious distribution that's doing SSP. If we get
more distributions using it then we get more support, testing, and debugging
for it and increase the chance of it being accepted upstream.
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