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Bug#753079: c++11 mode in GCC is still marked as experimental (although armel needs work)



On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:00:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 00:08:28 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > But this seems toi be a bug porter amd GCC maintainer has to address.
> > If they can not, we should drop armel from Debian.

> I would rather drop any package which does use c++11 features without any
> reflection. The c++11 status in GCC (and any compiler using libstdc++) is still
> marked as experimental [1]. See [2] for further updates on the c++11 status in
> 4.9.  Therefore the package maintainers have to accommodate for that, if the
> upstream projects don't do it.  This is the status for jessie.

> The GCC maintainers did address the issue [3], and it can be fixed just by
> bumping the cpu requirements to armv7 (as done for sparc/v9 in the past,
> to keep the port alive a bit longer).  However this shouldn't be done
> before the jessie release.

However, bumping the CPU requirements for the armel port to armv7 also make
that port completely redundant; at that point it's just a slow armhf with no
advantages.

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