Bug#912164: transition: llvm-defaults

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org>]

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? :)

Thanks,
Sylvestre


Ben file:

title = "llvm-defaults";

Affected: .depends ~ /(clang|llvm)1?-?[34567]/
Good: .depends ~ /(clang|llvm)1?-?[67]/
Bad: .depends ~ /(clang|llvm)1?-?[345]/


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)