Hi Stephen, On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 07:59:50AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Ron, > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:12:10 +0100, Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> > wrote: > > A conclusion of the short discussion is probably that both mingw32 and > > gcc-mingw32 packages (and their corresponding mingw32-binutils and > > mingw32-runtime packages) in Debian are obsoleted and superseded by > > the mingw-w64 packages family, i.e. gcc-mingw-w64 and mingw-w64-dev. > > I'd thus like to suggest their removal from Debian. > > I think it's now time to pull the plug, unless you object... The only > remaining reverse-dependency on mingw32 in the archive is netbeans, and that > has been broken for quite some time (it fails to build from source, see > https://bugs.debian.org/713182) and will be fixed at some point by using the > newer netbeans platform package (libnb-platform18-java) which builds with > mingw-w64. > > My plan is to proceed in a similar fashion to the wheezy gcc-mingw32 > transition: provide replacement binary packages for mingw32 and > mingw32-binutils, containing symlinks to the replacement tools in > gcc-mingw-w64-i686 and binutils-mingw-w64-i686 respectively. I've tested this > and it allows old build scripts using the i586-mingw32msvc target to continue > working. I'd also file an RM bug for mingw32-runtime. > > Does that sound OK to you?
I actually haven't had any reason to build something with this now for longer than I can definitely remember, so if you're happy that the w64 toolchain is a complete replacement for this now, and have a transition plan that you think is going to work - then I'm perfectly happy to let you run with this in whatever way your best judgement sees fit :) Feel free to file RoM removal requests with ftp-master with my blessing whenever you're ready for that now. Thanks! Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
