On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Shall we mark gcc-4.8 as unsupported in wheezy, explaining that its only > > purpose is to enable build of other packages? > > That would make sense. > > I'll see if I can take a look at this.
The problematic part is likely libstdc++. I would expect the new gcc to assume that you have the corresponding libstdc++. Mike once told that Firefox has special code to avoid the increased dependency but that might not be the case of other packages that we might want to build with a newer gcc. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/