Bug#832098: transition: llvm-defaults
On 05/10/16 00:33, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 04/10/16 19:40, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
>> Le 04/10/2016 à 19:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
>>> 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 * 3.7 is no longer maintained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.
>> Done!
>
> clamav freemat gnome-builder and libclang-perl binNMUed.
clamav and freemat fail to build against LLVM 3.8. They have bug reports.
Emilio
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