Am 17.10.2014 um 19:44 schrieb Steve Cotton: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 05:25:13PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: >> Package: src:gcc-4.8 >> Version: 4.8.3-11 >> Severity: serious >> Tags: sid jessie >> >> The current default for GCC (4.9) is good enough for jessie. Don't ship >> legacy >> compilers with jessie. > > Hi Matthias, > > Removing GCC 4.8 will need Linux kernel ABI transitions. > > I haven't seen any discussion on the debian-kernel list, and the > latest of the Linux package (uploaded to sid this week) still has > it generating linux-compiler-* packages depending on gcc-4.8, so > I think the Linux maintainers are expecting GCC 4.8 to be in > Jessie.
This was communicated to Ben Hutching at DebConf, so plenty of time to prepare the change. Are there known showstoppers? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
