Hi, gcc-avr was originally built from the mainline gcc, but was later split out by to build depend on gcc-source as it was not wanted in the mainstream gcc package. Has that situation changed?
It was then decided to base the package on the Atmel distribution instead of the upstream source as that gave support for newer devices faster. Now, as far as I can tell, Atmel have dropped their source distribution and only provided binaries. So something have to be done indeed. Switching back to use upstream source would be one option. But will that mean we'll have to dropp support for newer devices? Den tors 25 juli 2019 17:27nightwalker-87 <nightwalker...@t-online.de> skrev: > 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 outdated compared to the current level of version support for the main gcc 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 >
