Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal
Hi, I’ve begun porting pcc to Debian in the hope of making it useful as an alternative compiler, especially as it’s very easy to use it for cross-compiling since it doesn’t distinguish between cross and native. (That was before M-A, and patching pcc up for M-A was on my TODO of course.) Apparently, I was over-confident in pcc, but to my excuse, at that point in time, excluding my own, at least two if not three BSDs were intending to switch the system compiler to pcc, development was somewhat active, an 1.0 release had been made, the CVS HEAD was actually usable, etc. Since I have yet to see any recent upstream activity in pcc at all, just lynx news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.pcc.scm for the CVS changes mailing list, *and* the current state is broken on most architectures, I had held off patching the other problems in the meantime (though I clearly had plans on how to do it once pcc became usable again), but by now I’ve lost belief. That’s why I ask that pcc be removed from Debian fully at the moment. I may or may not want to reintroduce it later, or someone else might, in which case it should be treated as a fully new submission. Sorry about the effort. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
