Hi Andreas, On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 02:37:38AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > gcc-cross-support FTBFS in experimental, tries to regenerate > debian/control in order to rename several packages and add a bunch of > new ones.
Yes. The problem essentially is that you can only upload gcc-cross-support after a stable update of dpkg, because either it FTBFS or dak rejects it, because dak's idea of valid architectures differs from dpkg's. > Given that the package hasn't seen any upload in the last two years, > maybe it's not needed for the current cross compilers and should rather > be removed than fixed :-) Indeed the goal is to get it removed. Removing the package that is, not removing the functionality. We have made significant progress by introducing binutils-for-host and binutils-for build into src:binutils now. The next step is introducing gcc-7-for-host and when gcc-defaults takes over gcc-for-host, I want to remove the source package. Until then, I'd like to keep it accessible to show where this work is heading. So while there hasn't been any upload, progress is not stuck. I'd like to keep the package (rc buggy as it is) in experimental for a while though. I hope that doesn't cause too much pain to you. Helmut
