Andrew 'ashridah' Pilley writes: > which reminds me. when gcc 3.0 gets released, (which is supposed to be > the 15th of june, surprisingly.) how will debian go about switching to it? > (for x86 at least.) just changing the default compiler, and letting packages > get upgraded as they go? or are there are few packages that, when > recompiled (the dynamic linker?) that will mean that everyone who doesn't > want their packages to break have to compile them again? or is there a > plan to get around that?
the gcc-3.0 release is scheduled for the middle of June. I think we don't have the time to rebuild and test all packages with the new compiler, especially libraries. So if a package is compiled with the 3.0 compiler, it has to explicitely depend on 3.0.