Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Sun, 2014-09-28 at 16:00 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > chromium 38 is currently planning to drop support for all compilers > less than gcc 4.8 (and all clang not built against >= gcc 4.8). So > wheezy will soon have no way to compile an up to date chromium.
Can we quantify "soon"? > In order to continue providing security updates for chromium in > wheezy, I would like to propose a gcc wheezy-pu. I haven't tried to > get this working yet, and am sending this to see whether the release > team would even consider this. Have you discussed this with the gcc maintainers? What's their opinion on the idea, in terms of feasibility and supportability? > The alternative is to drop chromium security support for wheezy way too soon. They're not the only alternatives. Granted, they may be the only ones which you're willing to support. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
