Bug#731069: gcc-defaults: Please resume considering to change using unified version of gcc

[Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 01:14:17PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Afaics, the situation didn't change. There is nobody committing to work on the
> toolchain for these architectures.  At least for release architectures the
> alternative is to drop the port unless somebody wants to maintain the toolchain
> for this port.  This is the current status, please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
>  - alpha, no feedback, CCing Michael Cree.

I had hoped to get glibc 2.17 building on Alpha before switching to gcc-4.8, but
that's proving to be a rather difficult nut to crack.  Assuming that there is
nothing in gcc-4.8 that specially depends on the version of glibc in unstable
then please default to gcc-4.8 on Alpha.

Cheers
Michael.