Re: gcc plans for the lenny cycle
* Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org> [2007-04-13 19:42]:
> gcc 4.2.0 will be released Real Soon Now (next few months). Changes
> are not very disruptive, I suppose not very many packages will fail
> to build. It will probably stabilize within a few months.
FWIW, I've been keeping track of 4.2 related package bugs:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.2;users=tbm@cyrius.com
> gcc 4.3.0 release is harder to estimate. Maybe mid-2008. No really
> earth-shaking internal changes are planned, so it probably will also
> only take a few months to stabilize. A number of C++ packages will
> fail to build because the header dependencies have been streamlined;
> however, they should be very easy to fix.
"a few" =~ 400, but yes, they are trivial to fix and patches for
almost all of them exist. I'll start filing other 4.3 related bugs in
the coming weeks.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.3;users=tbm@cyrius.com
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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