Re: Bug#763278: gcc 4.9 wheezy-pu?
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Am 10.10.2014 um 06:39 schrieb Adam D. Barratt:
>> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 23:01 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>>> Note that the window for the next stable update is closing in about a
>>> week, so there isn't a lot of time.
>>
>> Actually, the /point release/ is in about a week. The advertised window
>> for getting updates in to it closes this weekend.
>
> I don't think updating all the shared libraries in a stable release is a good
> thing.
That would only happen if gcc-defaults were changed to default to the
new package and the release team somehow ok'd binnmus of a bunch of
stable packages, which is rather unlikely, right?
> What you might want to do is to package the current 4.9 as a
> gcc-snapshot package, and use this one, probably with static libgcc and libstdc++.
Isn't -snapshot meant to indicate experimental versions? The plan is
more to do an exact backport of the current gcc 4.9 package in
testing.
Best wishes,
Mike
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