On 30/11/07 at 17:22 +1300, Roy Ward wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Have you made some progress on this package? > > Some, but not enough to submit a package. > > One bit of news is that gcc-3.3 is going to be the required compiler. I've > looking at building Mercury 0.13.1 with several versions of gcc on x86 and > amd64, and while projects are fine with a later gcc, Mercury itself won't > build under newer versions. The next upstream release (whenever that is) > will shift gcc versions to 4.1 or 4.2. > > If someone reading this can tell me that a version of gcc that old is not > acceptable, I'll package a rotd (release of the day), and then gamble that > there is a full upstream release before the Lenny release.
I don't know anything about mercury, but maybe it would be a better plan to package rotds, and find and fix bugs in them, instead of trying to get an old version in debian, and then switching to a brand new release just before lenny. Note that you could also decide to include a rotd in lenny, if upstream hasn't released anything by then... I think that the answer to that actually is "our priority is our users". What's the most useful choice for our users? ;) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
