Re: gcc-doc in stretch

[Steven Tan]

Thanks for clarifying.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote:

> On 08/06/2016 04:08 PM, Steven Tan wrote:
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gcc-doc&;
> searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> > It looks like the package gcc-doc is not provided in stretch, not even in
> > contrib or non-free, but the package is provided in jessie and sid.
> >
> > Is this a bug or intended?
>
> Well, it's a bug, but in gcc-doc. It currently fails to build
> from source, and the maintainer hasn't fixed it yet, so it
> was autoremoved from testing a month or so ago:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825320
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/782354
>
> Once that bug is fixed, it can reenter testing. (Assuming no
> other RC bug is filed in the mean time.)
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>