Re: release critical gcc bugs
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 10:21:05PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> On 99-11-07 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?
> Which c-compiler is used by us, the maintainers and our users? Mostly is
> gcc and so it's important that it becomes fixed. If you don't consider
> those packages as important, I think you are leaving in an other world
> then myself.
Marking every g++ failure as release-critical is not OK, simply because
the bugs have workarounds and are very, very difficult to fix. If you
submit a patch, then feel free to raise the severity to important;
meanwhile, there is nothing to be done. We forward the bugs to the
upstream authors, and we do what we can to figure out the problem, but
in a piece of software as complex as gcc it can take a long time to
uncover the bugs.
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University |
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