On 01.06.25 15:20, Santiago Vila wrote:
El 1/6/25 a las 14:54, Paul Gevers escribió:
Having said all that, why do *you* think those packages should be removed
They are very big, they have very big build times, and they are in general
a burden for QA.
I don't see any QA burden.
Every time I do an archive rebuild to check for any thing, I have to
include
those packages so that the archive rebuild is complete. Otherwise I would
be unable to say, for example, "there are exactly 50 packages in trixie
which will FTBFS
if the apt cache is removed before the build" (to put a recent real life
example).
and why didn't you go to the maintainer, but came straight to us?
well, Santiago feels harassed as seen in the "Proposed MBF: packages
that FTBFS with make --shuffle" thread, but is harassing other people to
remove stuff what he doesn't like...
The idea of filing a bug against release.debian.org with the GCC
maintainers in the Cc
(initially X-debbugs-Cc) was to have a discussion between all involved
parties,
not just the release team.
Please keep the GCC maintainers in the Cc.
if you want to be productive, get the gcc-12 package removed for trixie,
but as long as these older versions are still used, I don't see any need
to remove the cross compilers.
