Bug#912164: transition: llvm-defaults
Control: tags -1 confirmed
On 28/10/2018 18:36, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> Hello
>
> I would like to llvm-toolchain-7 the default for buster.
>
> This for the following reasons:
>
> * llvm 6.0 upstream won't have a new upstream release
> * I have been focusing my Debian effort on 7 for a while, so, packaging is a much better shape
> * libc++ & openmp have been merged into llvm-toolchain-7. We would be able to remove libc++ and openmp;
> Both had some significant improvements as they have been merged in the main line.
> * a few packages are already using 7 (Postgresql, rust 1.30 and soon Firefox, which would make our life easier when we release)
> * 7 is in testing
> * Remove everything but 6 & 7 from the archive to release with only two llvm versions. (maybe one if we are very lucky? :)
I acked the -defaults change over irc. Let's update the bug status too.
Emilio
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