Hi Matthias,
On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 07:54:04PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
does it personally hurt you?
11 and 12 are the versions which were shipped in stable, and apparently
people still use these packages for backports.
Versions 11 and 12 (predating gcc-for-host) include a lot of
cross-architecture undeclared file conflicts. Doing archive wide
conflict analysis is dominated by these two packages and poses a
significant additional cost on that work.
Yes, just keeping them poses a cost. Now it s up to you and me how to
deal with that. I see three possible routes forward:
* Delete them from the archive
* Fix the undeclared file conflicts
* Exclude them from conflict analysis
I hope you can see how I find the first option most attractive, but then
I'm probably missing parts of the bigger picture.