https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120917
--- Comment #12 from Frank Heckenbach <f.heckenb...@fh-soft.de> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #10) > (In reply to Frank Heckenbach from comment #9) > > but please consider distribution release cycles > > We do, obviously. Most of the people maintaining the GCC packages in the > major distros are GCC developers. OK, so you'll agree that there was no deprecation period for Debian stable users, and the GCC indeed didn't warn about it, even if extremely pedantic. I think that does qualify as special circumstances, like I said, doesn't it?
