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Re: Removing gcc-3.0 from unstable/testing



On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Matthias Klose wrote:

> Matthew Wilcox writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 07:08:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > hppa is the only platform with gcc-3.0/g++-3.0. Is this version still
> > > needed for hppa builds, or can it be removed? On all other platforms,
> > > we just build the libstdc++ runtime library (but doesn't seem to be
> > > needed, I haven't seen third party software referencing this libstdc++
> > > library version).
> > 
> > Do we now have no packages that Build-Depend on gcc-3.0 or g++-3.0?
> > There seem to be an extraordinarily large number of packages in testing
> > for hppa that are still linked against libstdc++3.
> 
> maybe to be a bit clearer, remove it from unstable. then it get's
> removed from testing, when no more packages reference it in testing.
> 
> looking at the packages depending on libstdc++3, I see most
> badly,maintained, outdated packages, so removing these as well is an
> alternative. the current dependencies in unstable are:
> 
> libgc6 - don't know why this is still built using 3.0. The boehm-gc
>         sources build fine with 3.3. just filed RC report.
> 
> gutenbrowser - did depend on qt2, which was removed. #254307.
> 
> x10 - needs to be rebuilt. #236060.
> 
> playmp3list - needs to be rebuilt. #236116.
> 
> npadmin -  needs to be rebuilt. #236117.
> 
> juice -  needs to be rebuilt. #236053.
> 
> flying -  needs to be rebuilt. #236046.
> 
> craft -  needs to be rebuilt. #236043.
> 
> cdindex-client -  needs to be rebuilt. #236041.
> 
> blackbook -  needs to be rebuilt. #236040.
> 
> bbpal -  needs to be rebuilt. #236037.
> 
> abuse-sdl -  needs to be rebuilt. #221379.

Wasn't PALO (the bootloader) also build-dependant upon 3.0 at some point?

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Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant
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