Comparing squeeze and jessies - have things regressed? if yes, how? As far as I expect, the way one uses debian source packaging to produce cross toolchains has not changed, nor has been affected by changes in jessie, in comparison to squeeze.
Multiarch cross-building - a brand new set of features in a set of debian source packages, is only interesting for targetting existing debian architectures as it relies on the existing presence of packages from said architectures to exist (e.g. to use the newly, partially complete multiarch cross tooling to make a cross from A to B, libc6:B must already exist). Thus multiarch cross tooling is not so relevant for fresh bootstraps, and/or targeting non-debian architectures, or otherwise incomplete systems (e.g. those that do not have compatible set of pre-compiled binaries that use multiarch-paths, and as far as I can tell only debian and debian derivates have adopted support for multiarch toolchain paths). Granted, the multiarch cross toolchain tooling almost made it into jessie, however it is incomplete and from maintainer's point of view not supportable in a stable release. Can we all settle and move these developments to experimental targeting for stretch, instead? Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org