Re: Bug#765380: don't ship gcc-4.8 with jessie
On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 20:24 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 17.10.2014 um 19:44 schrieb Steve Cotton: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:25:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Package: src:gcc-4.8 Version: 4.8.3-11 Severity: serious Tags: sid jessie The current default for GCC (4.9) is good enough for jessie. Don't ship legacy compilers with jessie. Hi Matthias, Removing GCC 4.8 will need Linux kernel ABI transitions. I haven't seen any discussion on the debian-kernel list, and the latest of the Linux package (uploaded to sid this week) still has it generating linux-compiler-* packages depending on gcc-4.8, so I think the Linux maintainers are expecting GCC 4.8 to be in Jessie. This was communicated to Ben Hutching at DebConf, so plenty of time to prepare the change. Are there known showstoppers? Bastian said it was generating invalid code for some parts of the kernel on s390x, and I relayed that to you then. He says this is unfixed. I expect that x86, arm*, arm64, and powerpc* kernels have been well- tested with gcc 4.9. Out of our release architectures, that would leave mips and mipsel as unknown. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings [W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Bug#765380: don't ship gcc-4.8 with jessie
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:25:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Package: src:gcc-4.8 Version: 4.8.3-11 Severity: serious Tags: sid jessie The current default for GCC (4.9) is good enough for jessie. Don't ship legacy compilers with jessie. Hi Matthias, Removing GCC 4.8 will need Linux kernel ABI transitions. I haven't seen any discussion on the debian-kernel list, and the latest of the Linux package (uploaded to sid this week) still has it generating linux-compiler-* packages depending on gcc-4.8, so I think the Linux maintainers are expecting GCC 4.8 to be in Jessie. (CC'ing the debian-kernel list for comments) Regards, Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2014101717.ga2...@s.cotton.clara.co.uk
Re: Bug#765380: don't ship gcc-4.8 with jessie
Am 17.10.2014 um 19:44 schrieb Steve Cotton: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:25:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Package: src:gcc-4.8 Version: 4.8.3-11 Severity: serious Tags: sid jessie The current default for GCC (4.9) is good enough for jessie. Don't ship legacy compilers with jessie. Hi Matthias, Removing GCC 4.8 will need Linux kernel ABI transitions. I haven't seen any discussion on the debian-kernel list, and the latest of the Linux package (uploaded to sid this week) still has it generating linux-compiler-* packages depending on gcc-4.8, so I think the Linux maintainers are expecting GCC 4.8 to be in Jessie. This was communicated to Ben Hutching at DebConf, so plenty of time to prepare the change. Are there known showstoppers? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54415eca.6030...@debian.org
