Source: gcc-14-cross Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: emanuele.a...@collabora.com, r...@debian.org
Dear Maintainer I think we found an issue with gcc-14-cross (and other packages with similar relations like what-is-python) that causes it to misbehave whenever a new upload happens without a matching upload of gcc-14. In particular, the binaries produced by gcc-14-cross take their version from gcc-14 only, disregarding the actual gcc-14-cross version completely. This means that uploading a new gcc-14-cross version without changing gcc-14 will produce new binaries with the same version as the one produced by the previous uploads, breaking the archive invariants. We found this because for our derivative we are using OBS which always appends a build revision to the changelog on every build and it did not have any effect on gcc-14-cross package. This behavior should apply to Debian as well. For instance, at the moment Debian has the sources: * gcc-14 14.2.0-6 * gcc-14-cross 7 And the binaries: * gcc-14-source 14.2.0-6 * gcc-14-aarch64-linux-gnu 14.2.0-6cross1 The issue is that any update to gcc-14-cross alone would still result in gcc-14-aarch64-linux-gnu 14.2.0-6cross1, since the version of gcc-14-cross is not reflected in the version of gcc-14-aarch64-linux-gnu in any way. A potential approach that would avoid the issue would be to concatenate the gcc-14-cross version to the generated version, (gcc-14-source version + "cross" + gcc-14-cross version); for instance getting gcc-14-aarch64-linux-gnu 14.2.0-6cross7. Would it be useful to you if we were to submit a patch to do that? Thank you! -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.11.2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
