Hi Ron, On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:14:13 +0930, Ron <r...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 07:59:50AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > 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.
Will do, thanks! Stephen
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