G++ 3.0

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Alexei Khlebnikov writes:
 > I am faced with a problem: my classes hierarchy is not compiled by G++ 3.0
 > Debian prerelease.
 > I use woody branch and I don't want to switch to sid because I want to have a
 > somewhat stable system.
 > 
 > G++ 3.0 Debian prerelease ICEs on my (legal) code. I've wrote a bug report to
 > GNATS and received an answer that the bug was fixed in the release. So, I have a
 > question to Debian GCC maintainers: is there a scheduled date for moving GCC 3.0
 > release to woody branch? If not, how fast it would happen? If unknown, is it
 > safe to download release from the sid branch and install it through "apt-cache
 > add" or manually through "dpkg --install" ? Or I should build it from sources?
 > In that unliked case, should I use Debian-provided GCC sources or ones provided
 > by gcc.gnu.org ?

it should be ok to install gcc-3.0 from sid, but it depends on some
more packages only in sid (newer libc6 and binutils).

I don't like the current situation. we have a gcc version in woody
that should be removed and version in sid, which doesn't
propagate.