Re: Release-critical Bugreport for November 26, 1999
Please remove optimizer as requested in my bug report a while back.
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Adam Heath writes:
> > On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Christian Kurz wrote:
> >
> > > > > > Package: libg++272 (main)
> > > > > > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
> > > > > > 47212 [m68k] libg++272_2.7.2.8-1 build failure
> > > > >
> > > > > Here we need the help from the M68K-Team to find the bug and a solution
> > > > > for it.
> > >
> > > > This is a more general issue. Currently even on i386 libg++272 does
> > > > not build with a gcc272, which was built on potato. We would need a
> > > > glibc-2.0 based build environment, I doubt this is worth the
> > > > trouble. Currently there are only the following packages dependant on
> > > > libg++272:
> > >
> > > > netscape & communicator
> > >
> > > > and optimizer (Does not compile with gcc-2.9x and egcs). The
> > > > maintainer wanted to remove this package for the slink release. But
> > > > it's still there ...
> > >
> > > So, can we surely remove the package without breaking much stuff? What
> > > does the maintainer say about this issue?
> >
> > Um, removing the package will make netscape not function. Do we really want
> > to do that(the netscape maintainer).
>
> misunderstanding: I assume, that netscape does not need libg++272-dev
> and g++272. So if optimizer is removed, these two packages are not
> needed anymore. I doubt that netscape is built on a Debian system, but
> you'll never know ;-)
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