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Andreas Jochens wrote: | | Since the beginning of December 2004 almost every new package version | for the gcc-3.4 archive has been compiled with gcc4. Up to now, | more than 2000 source packages (i.e. roughly 25% of all source packages) | in the gcc-3.4 archive have been built using gcc4. | | My plan is to rebuild the complete archive with gcc4 and upload the | resulting packages to alioth during the next month. When this upload | has been completed, the name of the current 'gcc-3.4' archive will be | changed to 'gcc4'. |
It would have been nice if you had announced this more early. Democracy in software engineering is a myth, but on the other side, you are not the only one using the gcc-3.4 branch.
| I apologize for any inconveniece caused by this transition, but I think | it is worth the efforts. Gcc4 has already detected a large number | of amd64 related errors in many packages because of its stricter | warnings concerning dubious pointer-to-integer conversions.
I would have suggested to support a subset package pool for gcc-4.0, i.e. sources.list could look like this
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-4.0/ unstable main non-free contrib deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-4.0/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/ unstable main non-free contrib
for the "experimental" users, and
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64/ unstable main non-free contrib
for the users more interested in the "unstable" version.
Regards
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