Package: gcc-avr Version: 1:5.4.0+Atmel3.6.1-2 Severity: normal Tags: newcomer
Dear Maintainer, It appears that the gcc-avr toolchain in the debian repository is severely outdated compared to the current level of version support for the main gcc toolchain. This leaves avr-developers wishing to use newer C language features behind and makes it necessary to use external toolchains (source based or pre- compiled). Pointing to this in the debian-devel IRC-Channel, lead to the following idea: "if it was in mainline, the gcc-avr package could be dropped in favour of a package built from the mainline version of gcc." as well as "an example of such a source package is gcc-arm-none-eabi, the equivalent for avr could be added by someone interested, then gcc-avr could be removed." (user: pabs) From my point of view this could be a promising approach to resume development on this topic. I would appreciate, if debian developers could take action on this topic to resolve this long lasting backlog and make contribution to make debian even more attractive for development. As it stands the avr-8 architecture will remain for many years to come in some parts even with new applications. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages gcc-avr depends on: ii binutils-avr 2.26.20160125+Atmel3.6.1-4 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-7 ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-4 ii libmpc3 1.1.0-1 ii libmpfr6 4.0.2-1 ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-7 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 gcc-avr recommends no packages. Versions of packages gcc-avr suggests: ii avr-libc 1:2.0.0+Atmel3.6.1-2 ii gcc 4:8.3.0-1 pn gcc-doc <none> -- no debconf information
