Control: tags -1 confirmed On 28/10/2018 18:36, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > Hello > > I would like to llvm-toolchain-7 the default for buster. > > This for the following reasons: > > * llvm 6.0 upstream won't have a new upstream release > * I have been focusing my Debian effort on 7 for a while, so, packaging is a > much better shape > * libc++ & openmp have been merged into llvm-toolchain-7. We would be able to > remove libc++ and openmp; > Both had some significant improvements as they have been merged in the main > line. > * a few packages are already using 7 (Postgresql, rust 1.30 and soon Firefox, > which would make our life easier when we release) > * 7 is in testing > * Remove everything but 6 & 7 from the archive to release with only two llvm > versions. (maybe one if we are very lucky? :)
I acked the -defaults change over irc. Let's update the bug status too. Emilio
