Re: Rationale for gcc version in wheezy

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Markus Raab wrote: > Hi Group! > > I would like to ask why most arch have 4:4.6.3-8 instead of 4:4.7.2-1[0]. > Is it because: > - Some (many) packages do not compile? > - Some (many) packages produce crashes? > - There was simply not enough time? If this is the re

Re: Rationale for gcc version in wheezy

2013-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Markus Raab (use...@markus-raab.org): > Hi Group! > > I would like to ask why most arch have 4:4.6.3-8 instead of 4:4.7.2-1[0]. > Is it because: > - Some (many) packages do not compile? > - Some (many) packages produce crashes? > - There was simply not enough time? If this is the reason: I

Re: Rationale for gcc version in wheezy

2013-01-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:43:26 +0100 Markus Raab wrote: > I would like to ask why most arch have 4:4.6.3-8 instead of 4:4.7.2-1[0]. http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/05/msg00175.html > Is it because: > - Some (many) packages do not compile? >500 packages failed when gcc-4.7 was first u