On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 16:35 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Package: silo
> Version: 1.4.11-0.2
> Severity: serious
> 
> The silo bootloader package build-depends on gcc-2.95 at the version
> currently in unstable, making it the only package of any substance which
> does so.  The gcc-2.95 package itself is RC-buggy, failing to build with the
> current version of make; since there has been no interest expressed in
> fixing this bug by the maintainer, the likely outcome is that gcc-2.95 will
> be dropped from etch, leaving sparc without a releasable bootloader.
> 
> There are two possible solutions:
> 
> - silo gets updated to use a more recent compiler, dropping this build-dep
> - someone adopts gcc-2.95, fixing the FTBFS, and maintaining it for etch

Just change the build-dep, it should be needed anymore. If it's
hardcoded in the makefile, change that too.

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