Bug#431014: Why won't you ship /usr/bin/gcc-snapshot?
On 2011-12-30 13:08:24 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Adam Borowski wrote:
> > I see no reason why it couldn't simply be shipped in the package
> > outright. It's not like it invades anyone's namespace, etc. It
> > would be also consistent with all other gcc packages, all having
> > the executable named the same as the package. At least after
> > having tested my stuff with gcc-4.2 in the past, I didn't even
> > suspect gcc-snapshot could be any different until ./configure
> > failed :p
>
> I suspect it's to save people from the pain of using the snapshot to
> build Debian packages on autobuilders when wanting to use a new
> feature or after running into a bug with one of the released gcc
> versions.
I use gcc-snapshot as a simple end user of GCC, in order to do some
portability tests of my programs (not directly related to Debian)
with the latest GCC features, in particular. So, providing
/usr/bin/gcc-snapshot would be natural.
Do you mean that you don't want gcc-snapshot to be in /usr/bin
because this would yield problems on autobuilders? But wouldn't
be the autobuilders' fault?
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