Re: release critical gcc bugs
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Christian Kurz writes:
> > > Package: g++ (main)
> > > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <gcc@packages.debian.org>
> > > 48530 g++ [alpha]: internal compiler error building open-amulet
> >
> > The bug is now about one week old and there seems to be no reaction
> > from the maintainers. When does this important package gets fixed?
>
> what do you want more than forwarding the bug and waiting for a fix?
> Another compiler version does not seem to be an alternative.
>
> why is this package important, it's _optional_?
FYI, the only trouble I ran into when building open-amulet on Alpha was an
optimiser bug in g++. Removing the "-O2" flags for the files affected
seemed to allow it to compile cleanly (and I uploaded the resulting
packages). IMO, this is a bug that has a workaround and is therefore not
critical. I have run across many packages in the past (not now) that will
not build at all with gcc. Those I consider to be critical since there is
no way to compile them at all. A "forwarded upstream" is definitely the
appropriate status on this (and priority should definitely be normal).
C
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