On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 10:38:03AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Pierre Labastie wrote:
> 
> > Shouldn't we add an entities &gcc6-tested, &gcc6-built and add those to
> > the package descriptions when tested?
> 
> That's a good idea.  We did it with gcc5.  I'm not sure though that we need
> to differentiate between built and tested.  I'm pretty confident that
> gcc5_checked is enough.
> 
> <!ENTITY gcc6_built  "<para>This package is known to build
>                       properly using the gcc-5 compiler.</para>">
> 
> When we go through the next release cycle, that would be removed and we
> check everything then anyway.
> 

Sounds good, (s/gcc-5/gcc-6/) but I would prefer to wait a little to
see if the problem is only with upgrading from gcc-5.

> Speaking of the next release, I'm tempted to call it 8.0 using Linus'
> rationale: it's just time for that.  It's been 5 years since 7.0.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

To me, that sounds very like treating it as a decimal.  At least
linus only rolls the version somewhere around .20.  Or we could
join the firefox/chrome version fight - new number for every
release ;-)

But it is only a number, even on those days when we want to call it
666.

Putting gold in would probably be worthwhile.  In theory firefox-46
should work out of the box with gold, but I no longer have a gold
system.  No idea about the other package Pierre mentioned.

Meanwhile, there are problems with nss-3,23 : on -support we had a
problem report for i686 (I think firefox failed to compile with
system nss), and now (gcc-5) qt5's qtwebengine (skipped in the book,
but qupzilla says it needs it) fails to compile.  For this some
fixes went in upstream, but I have not yet tested them (there was a
report that they did not fix it for someone).

I see we are all having so much fun!

ĸen
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