Re: Bug#954831: RM: gcc-8, superseded by gcc-9

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 3/24/20 1:13 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:33:55 +0100 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:
>> Package: ftp.debian.org
>>
>> Please remove gcc-8, gcc-8-cross and gcc-8-cross-ports. superseded by gcc-9
>>
>>
> Removed gcc-8-cross and gcc-8-cross-ports, however gcc-8 itself still has 
> quite some rdepends that need to be resolved before it can be removed.  Please 
> remove the moreinfo tag once that's been taken care of.
> 
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> # Broken Depends:
> gcc-7: lib32gcc-7-dev [amd64]
>        lib64gcc-7-dev [i386]
>        libgcc-7-dev [amd64 i386]
>        libx32gcc-7-dev [amd64 i386]

will be gone after the gcc-7 removal.

> gcc-8-cross-mipsen: gdc-8-mips64-linux-gnuabi64 [amd64 i386]
>                     gdc-8-mipsisa32r6-linux-gnu [amd64 i386]
>                     gdc-8-mipsisa32r6el-linux-gnu [amd64 i386]
>                     gdc-8-mipsisa64r6-linux-gnuabi64 [amd64 i386]
>                     gdc-8-mipsisa64r6el-linux-gnuabi64 [amd64 i386]

please remove as well.

> ghdl: ghdl-gcc [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel s390x]
>       ghdl-llvm [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips64el mipsel s390x]
>       ghdl-mcode [amd64 i386]

Marked for autoremoval on 06 April: #952110, #952324

> gprbuild: libgpr18 [mipsel]
>           libgpr2-dev [mipsel]
> libgnatcoll: libgnatcoll17 [mipsel]
>              libgnatcoll17-dev [mipsel]
> libgnatcoll-bindings: libgnatcoll-gmp17-dev [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-gmp18 [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-iconv17-dev [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-iconv18 [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-python17 [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-python17-dev [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-readline17-dev [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-readline18 [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-syslog1 [mipsel]
>                       libgnatcoll-syslog1-dev [mipsel]
> libgnatcoll-db: libgnatcoll-sql1 [mipsel]
>                 libgnatcoll-sql1-dev [mipsel]
>                 libgnatcoll-sqlite-bin [mipsel]
>                 libgnatcoll-sqlite17-dev [mipsel]
>                 libgnatcoll-sqlite18 [mipsel]
>                 libgnatcoll-xref18 [mipsel]
>                 libgnatcoll-xref18-dev [mipsel]
> libxmlada: libxmlada-dom5 [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-dom8-dev [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-input5 [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-input8-dev [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-sax5 [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-sax8-dev [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-schema5 [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-schema8-dev [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-unicode5 [mipsel]
>            libxmlada-unicode8-dev [mipsel]

CCing mips maintainers, and Ada maintainers.  Please can we drop mipsel as a
release architecture?

> llvm-toolchain-8: clang-8
>                   libclang-8-dev
> llvm-toolchain-9: clang-9
>                   libclang-9-dev

CCing LLVM maintainers.

> # Broken Build-Depends:
> gcc-7: gcc-8-base
> gcc-8-cross-mipsen: g++-8
>                     gcc-8-source (>= 8.3.0-7~)
>                     gccgo-8
>                     gdc-8
>                     gnat-8

see above, gcc-7 can be removed.

> gcc-mingw-w64: g++-8
>                gcc-8-source (>= 8.3.0-10)
>                gnat-8

Stephen, please can you upload the package from experimental to unstable? maybe
after building the binutils mingw64 package first.

> ghdl: gcc-8-source
>       gnat-8

see above.

> godot: libgcc-8-dev
>        libstdc++-8-dev

has a RC issue, see #954608

> kfreebsd-10: gcc-8

CCed KFreebsd maintainers.

> mysql-workbench: g++-8

other RC issues

> open-ath9k-htc-firmware: gcc-8-source

Marked for autoremoval on 06 April: #951891

> openjdk-8: g++-8

I'll fix that one.

> openzwave: g++-8
>            gcc-8

CCed Debian IoT