Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-06-09 Thread Fathi Boudra
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > Well, mingw32 has not been updated since 2007 and is barely usable now. > The license issues looks more like a pretext to stall it than anything else > since it is still possible to use gcc 4.3 anyway. I fully agree. You're welcome to provid

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:53:08AM +, Ove Kaaven wrote: > The lack of a suitable (i.e. non-buggy) mingw32 cross-compiler has blocked > Wine updates for half a year now. Both the mingw32 package (gcc 4.2.1) and > the gcc-mingw32 package (gcc 4.4.2) have a bug which was fixed in upstream > gcc 4.

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-29 Thread Ove Kaaven
Den 29. mai 2010 17:51, skrev Julien Cristau: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 16:09:25 +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: Den 23. mai 2010 15:47, skrev Ove Kaaven: Is it okay if I go ahead and do such a NMU? Well, since there have been no objections for a week, I guess I'll go ahead. I had been ready for som

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 16:09:25 +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > Den 23. mai 2010 15:47, skrev Ove Kaaven: > >Is it okay if I go ahead and do such a NMU? > > Well, since there have been no objections for a week, I guess I'll go ahead. > > I had been ready for some feedback from the mingw32 maintainer

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-29 Thread Ove Kaaven
Den 23. mai 2010 15:47, skrev Ove Kaaven: Is it okay if I go ahead and do such a NMU? Well, since there have been no objections for a week, I guess I'll go ahead. I had been ready for some feedback from the mingw32 maintainers like "we're working on an updated mingw32, just wait a bit", or "g

Re: Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Ove Kaaven] > Anyway, for me, the easiest way to be able to build an updated Wine > package would be to NMU gcc-mingw32. Doing so seems to be just a > matter of putting in a new gcc tarball in the source package, and > I've confirmed that updating it to gcc 4.4.4 seems to work for what > Wine nee

Permission to NMU gcc-mingw32

2010-05-23 Thread Ove Kaaven
The lack of a suitable (i.e. non-buggy) mingw32 cross-compiler has blocked Wine updates for half a year now. Both the mingw32 package (gcc 4.2.1) and the gcc-mingw32 package (gcc 4.4.2) have a bug which was fixed in upstream gcc 4.4.3. At least one of these should be updated, if we want a fully