On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:27:49PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some >> other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, >> similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just >> like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: >> >> * backports kernel >> * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel >> * X drivers >> * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency) >> >> all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1). >> >> A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners >> of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on >> the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm >> thinking of supporting at this point. >> >> Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? > >Sorry to bump an old thread.... > >Please consider moving to Clang 3.8 or 4.0 as the LLVM front end for >the platform. > >Clang 3.5 and 3.6 are no longer maintained. The bugs we are >discovering and reporting are being closed as "invalid" and "won't >fix" because Clang is outside its freshness date. > >Also pick up this for glibc: >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17775390/clang-3-3-in-c1y-mode-cannot-parse-cstdio-header/17776548#17776548 >. Though it was first seen in Clang 3.3, its still a problem today.
ACK, thanks for thinking about this still. Progress to date has been quiet, but work is ongoing. KiBi has a good set of patches ready for d-i already, and I'm working on debian-cd to add useful backports support. My first quick-hack attempt failed dismally, so I'm midway down a more disruptive but thorough set of changes now. Once that's working, I'll ask on -devel again for package lists. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross
