Apropos this: >gcc stable 1:2.95.2-13 alpha, i386, powerpc, sparc >gcc stable 1:2.95.2-13.1 arm, m68k >gcc updates 1:2.95.2-13.1 sparc > > Changelog says "NMU\nAdd new patch for ARM" though this is an > upload for sparc and arm is already in stable. > > I'm not quite convinced we should update a compiler in stable > w/o proper need. Syncing versions would be good, but this > would introduce an untested compiler package.
>From what I remember, the extra patch that was added in -13.1 is only applied when building for ARM. So the new SPARC version is benign but useless - it'll be exactly the same as -13. I'd be inclined to leave it out. p.