Bug#832098: transition: llvm-defaults

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Hi Sylvestre,

On 22/07/16 11:48, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 22/07/16 11:40, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: transition
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is again the time to transition to a more recent version of LLVM.
>> This time, I would be more agressive and skip the 3.7 transition:
>> * takes too much time
>> * 3.8 is stable with its 3.8.1 release
>> * 3.7 is no longer maintained
>> * we have too many releases of llvm in the archive
>> * I don't remember seeing critical changes between 3.7 and 3.8
> 
> Yes please! But first the build problems need to be fixed:
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=llvm-toolchain-3.8&suite=sid

Everything got fixed except for armel, which didn't receive any reply to the
call for help in #820535. So I think we can proceed without llvm 3.8 on armel.
Some packages may need to drop support there or just get removed on armel.
Packages are already moving to llvm 3.8 anyway.

So I'd say go ahead and update the llvm-defaults package for 3.8. Let me know
when that happens so I can schedule binNMUs.

Thanks,
Emilio