Riku Voipio a écrit : > Hi, > > Having gcc-4.2 as default on i386 and amd64, while most other > architectures have gcc-4.3 means most maintainers never test their > packages with gcc-4.3. This is making life miserable for those ports > that actually use gcc-4.3: > > 1) people upload packages with known gcc-4.3 bugs and not bothering > to fix them. > > 2) people applying gcc 4.3 bugfixes without actually testing them with > gcc-4.3. Often these turn out to be incomplete fixes. > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:30:54PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> Sigh, could we avoid the same discussion over and over, people are not >> supposed (we never asked it in the past, and I see no valid reason to do >> so) to update to the last stable point release before upgrading to >> stable+1. > > Dist-upgrade will not fail due to people still having this bug in their > kernels, so there is no need for users to upgrade kernel _before_ > upgrading to lenny. After upgrade reboot to the new lenny kernel is > normal procedure.
It will fail one machine where SBCL installed, as it is called from the postinst. For those machines, the kernel as to be fixed *before* the upgrade. Alternatively GCC could keep the current patch. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]