On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote:
> updating control file, adding version constraints with versions not in the > > archive anymore is kind of useless, speaking about Buster we won't have suc > gcc versions anymore since at least two stable releases. Hmmm... the gcc packages involved (gcc 4.9.2-4 and gcc-5 5.2.1-23) are definitely newer than Jessie -- I would think that means they're "technically" Stretch, but I'm not too clear on debian policies. > >Last question: > >If I contribute a patch to the debian/control file to do this, would it > get applied? > > nobody complained so far about this issue, so you are probably one of the > > few people not updating their compiler :) > > I'm really not sure this is worth the effort Well, I don't think it's much effort, and I'm (still) volunteering to contribute most of the effort. I'm not sure waiting until more people have a problem with this is the way to go. And of course, not everyone who has a problem will complain (or will complain somewhere that you would hear them) _______________________________________________ Pkg-haskell-maintainers mailing list Pkg-haskell-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-haskell-maintainers
