Re: dropping gcc-3.4 on hppa for the release

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Matthias Klose writes:
> Proposing to drop gcc-3.4 for the lenny release, at least on the hppa
> architecture.  There are currently some packages left build-depending
> on gcc-3.4/g++-3.4 [1].  Could the hppa port maintainers agree on
> dropping support for these packages for lenny?  That would have the
> additional advantage that we can remove libgcc2 (built from the
> gcc-4.0 sources) from the release.
> 
> If you're a package maintainer of one of the packages qemu,
> smarteiffel, stegdetect, wordtrans, prc-tools, please consider
> uploading this package with a build dependency on gcc-3.4 [!hppa] and
> explicitely failing the build on the hppa architecture.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=gcc-3.4;users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org

sorry to reply to my own email; the current gcc-3.4 package doesn't
build binaries for hppa anymore. This doesn't affect qemu which isn't
built for hppa anyway. I'll look at the other packages and file RC
reports if they have hppa binaries.

  Matthias