Thanks for your reply! On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:55:05PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As I see it the sarge-amd64 fork will be gcc-3.3 compiled since > gcc-3.4 would need a lot more changes. That means the main sid archive > will also stay with gcc-3.3 and follow the normal debian transition to > gcc-3.4 over time. ... > > Does anyone have an educated guess as to when amd64 sid will move to > > gcc 3.4? > > A year after sarge? Maybe faster if we agressively write patches and > ask for NMUs.
This surprises me. I'm not a Debian developer, but I would have guessed that as soon as Sarge were released, the first change to sid would be to move to the latest toolchain and kde/gnome/X/whatever, breaking as much stuff as possible and then repair and release as Etch. Which would be much more unstable than Debian has been since I've used it, which I suppose is why it doesn't work that way. > Packages can Build-Depend on gcc-3.4 and compile with it in the > "normal" pure64 as some packages (like all the mozilla browsers) are > already doing. Thanks, I didn't know that. That's good news. --Pete
