Re: Preparing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

Apropos this:

>gcc         stable    1:2.95.2-13    alpha, i386, powerpc, sparc
>gcc         stable    1:2.95.2-13.1  arm, m68k
>gcc         updates   1:2.95.2-13.1  sparc
>
>	Changelog says "NMU\nAdd new patch for ARM" though this is an
>	upload for sparc and arm is already in stable.
>
>	I'm not quite convinced we should update a compiler in stable
>	w/o proper need.  Syncing versions would be good, but this
>	would introduce an untested compiler package.

>From what I remember, the extra patch that was added in -13.1 is only applied 
when building for ARM.  So the new SPARC version is benign but useless - it'll 
be exactly the same as -13.  I'd be inclined to leave it out.

p.