On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 20:24 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 17.10.2014 um 19:44 schrieb Steve Cotton: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:25:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> Package: src:gcc-4.8 > >> Version: 4.8.3-11 > >> Severity: serious > >> Tags: sid jessie > >> > >> The current default for GCC (4.9) is good enough for jessie. Don't ship legacy > >> compilers with jessie. > > > > Hi Matthias, > > > > Removing GCC 4.8 will need Linux kernel ABI transitions. > > > > I haven't seen any discussion on the debian-kernel list, and the > > latest of the Linux package (uploaded to sid this week) still has > > it generating linux-compiler-* packages depending on gcc-4.8, so > > I think the Linux maintainers are expecting GCC 4.8 to be in > > Jessie. > > This was communicated to Ben Hutching at DebConf, so plenty of time to prepare > the change. Are there known showstoppers? Bastian said it was generating invalid code for some parts of the kernel on s390x, and I relayed that to you then. He says this is unfixed. I expect that x86, arm*, arm64, and powerpc* kernels have been well- tested with gcc 4.9. Out of our release architectures, that would leave mips and mipsel as unknown. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949
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