Re: Unsupported packages for Wheezy LTS

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 06:47:03AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> First and foremost, while GCC 4.7 is the current
> minimum version supported, it's likely to become GCC 4.8 in the near
> future, because of some wanted C++11/C++14 features. 

That problem also bit us with chromium in wheezy. Introducing an updated
g++ isn't simple since libstdc++ is also built from the source package.

> Second, Firefox is
> soon going to require the rust compiler, which we have no package for
> except in unstable.

I'd say lets ask the maintainers (and stable release managers) to 
introduce it in the next jessie point release.

Cheers,
        Moritz