Hi Santiago, On 01-06-2025 14:24, Santiago Vila wrote:
gcc-12-cross gcc-12-cross-ports gcc-13-cross gcc-13-cross-mipsen gcc-13-cross-ports -------------------- gcc-14-cross gcc-14-cross-mipsen gcc-14-cross-portsI think we should try to get rid of all packages above the line, as no package in Debian depends or build-depends on them.
We're already trying to get rid of gcc-12, but src:shim still builds against it. We hope we'll manage before the release.
To be able to remove them in practice, you need to ensure that they are not in the key-package set. Solving that problem enables us to remove them. As I understand it (I admit I don't fully), the cross compilers are key because their non-cross siblings are key. It could a bug in the calculation, I recall the cross binaries having the same names as their non-cross version but on different architectures, but I vaguely understand that they are really intertwined.
Having said all that, why do *you* think those packages should be removed and why didn't you go to the maintainer, but came straight to us?
Paul
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