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

[Roland Stigge <stigge@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 02/12/13 13:14, 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.
>  - hppa, no feedback, CCing John David Anglin
>  - ia64, no feedback, likely to be removed.
>  - powerpc, found some feedback from the porters, but unrelated to
>    toolchain issues, see
>    https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2013/11/msg00050.html
>  - powerpcspe, no feedback, CCing Roland Stigge.

Now that we have fixed gcc-4.7 and gcc-4.8 on powerpcspe, using gcc-4.8
as default compiler on powerpcspe would fine.

Thanks in advance,

Roland