Bug#1107085: Can we please reduce the number of cross-compilers in trixie?

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 01.06.25 15:20, Santiago Vila wrote:
> El 1/6/25 a las 14:54, Paul Gevers escribió:
> > Having said all that, why do *you* think those packages should be removed
>
> They are very big, they have very big build times, and they are in general
> a burden for QA.

I don't see any QA burden.

> Every time I do an archive rebuild to check for any thing, I have to 
> include
> those packages so that the archive rebuild is complete. Otherwise I would
> be unable to say, for example, "there are exactly 50 packages in trixie 
> which will FTBFS
> if the apt cache is removed before the build" (to put a recent real life 
> example).
>
> > and why didn't you go to the maintainer, but came straight to us?

well, Santiago feels harassed as seen in the "Proposed MBF: packages 
that FTBFS with make --shuffle" thread, but is harassing other people to 
remove stuff what he doesn't like...

> The idea of filing a bug against release.debian.org with the GCC 
> maintainers in the Cc
> (initially X-debbugs-Cc) was to have a discussion between all involved 
> parties,
> not just the release team.
>
> Please keep the GCC maintainers in the Cc.

if you want to be productive, get the gcc-12 package removed for trixie, 
but as long as these older versions are still used, I don't see any need 
to remove the cross compilers.