On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:17:32PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > >I'm not sure there are any in the original, plugins and a greater > >optimisation level certainly aren't things which will solve specific > >problems. Could you highlight them for me? > > Having these features available for developers, and having not to > wait two years until these appear in a stable release is worth the > update. Exposing a new compiler version to upstream developers > helps reducing the delta between upstream and debian packages. Yes I > think this is worth having it in squeeze. >
I don't think that stable is the place for doing active development. > >You mentioned: > >>- the upload will build several runtime libraries from the 4.5 > >> sources. Regression tests did pass for the runtime libs built > >> from the 4.5 sources and for 4.4 using the runtime libs from > >> 4.5. > > This didn't answer my question. "Is there anything more you would expect?" > I was asking for details as to what these actually did. Are they just "will the binary run?" > >At the moment, I'm still not sure on the actual advantage of introducing > >this new package at this stage in the release cycle. > > well, currently I don't see any arguments against the upload, just > some feelings that could apply to any package. > That's kinda the point. These apply for any package, and especially so for a toolchain. Given that there doesn't seem to be any compelling reason for gcc4.5 in squeeze, I'm afraid it's not going to make it for this release. Apologies, Neil -- * hermanr feels like a hedgehog having sex... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gcc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100820093451.gu7...@halon.org.uk
