Hi Ron, On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:12:10 +0100, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote: > A conclusion of the short discussion is probably that both mingw32 and > gcc-mingw32 packages (and their corresponding mingw32-binutils and > mingw32-runtime packages) in Debian are obsoleted and superseded by > the mingw-w64 packages family, i.e. gcc-mingw-w64 and mingw-w64-dev. > I'd thus like to suggest their removal from Debian.
I think it's now time to pull the plug, unless you object... The only remaining reverse-dependency on mingw32 in the archive is netbeans, and that has been broken for quite some time (it fails to build from source, see https://bugs.debian.org/713182) and will be fixed at some point by using the newer netbeans platform package (libnb-platform18-java) which builds with mingw-w64. My plan is to proceed in a similar fashion to the wheezy gcc-mingw32 transition: provide replacement binary packages for mingw32 and mingw32-binutils, containing symlinks to the replacement tools in gcc-mingw-w64-i686 and binutils-mingw-w64-i686 respectively. I've tested this and it allows old build scripts using the i586-mingw32msvc target to continue working. I'd also file an RM bug for mingw32-runtime. Does that sound OK to you? Regards, Stephen
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