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has caused the Debian Bug report #1107126,
regarding is cross-gcc-dev still useful or can it be removed?
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Package: cross-gcc-dev
Version: 249
Severity: serious
Justification: should it be included in trixie?
User: [email protected]
Usertags: rebootstrap
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi,
cross-gcc-dev is in a sorry state. To be honest, it is fair to say that
I broke it. How? With lots of help from Matthias, I implemented the
-for-host theme into gcc-14. That happened to affect a lot of code also
touched in these patches. Rebasing the patches has become next to
impossible, but also a significant portion of what they achieved has
actually ended up in the gcc source package. I tried porting the
cross-gcc-dev patches, but that didn't go far. In the end, I went for
reimplementing the patchset from scratch using the old patches as a
template. As a result of a much smaller diff, rebootstrap stopped[1]
using cross-gcc-dev. You may also find a working version[2] in the
patch_gcc_wdotap function of the rebootstrap source.
Now the question arises what to do about cross-gcc-dev? It no longer
covers the default gcc version in trixie. At that point, I see little
reason to include it.
If anyone disagrees with removing cross-gcc-dev from trixie, please
downgrade the severity of this bug.
In any case, cross-gcc-dev was very useful along the way. Thanks to Dima
for having maintained it for so long.
Helmut
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/rebootstrap/-/commit/916611197b58b972dbcba7802bc15a56d5d2c48b
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/rebootstrap/-/blob/master/bootstrap.sh?ref_type=heads#L2116
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Version: 249+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package cross-gcc has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1139691
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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