Re: gcc 3.1.1 to 3.2 transition
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:29:25PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> I noticed that the new gcc-3.1_3.1.1ds3-1 changelog notes that
> gcc 3.1.1 will go away when 3.2 arrives. Do we plan on having a period
> of time (say a month) where both 3.1.1 and 3.2 will co-exist in the
> sid pool? That might be a good idea to allow folks to recompile any
> packages that they might have built under gcc 3.1.1 with 3.2 instead.
> I mention this because on ppc we have our openoffice.org package
> currently built under gcc 3.1.1 and it would be a cleaner transition
> if gcc 3.1.1 didn't instantly disappear when gcc 3.2 arrived in the
> pool.
Why would it be any cleaner? Everything should be rebuilt with gcc
3.2 as soon as possible, and there is no point in allowing packages to
continue to be built with 3.1.1.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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