On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:14:08AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:03:32PM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:31:51PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:21:10AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote: > > > > > > > Waiting on the new gcc-3.0. The one in the archive is 2.95 > > > > > > My screen this morning showed that GCC has compiled, but the packaging > > > wanted a boehm collector for something. I will fix the packaging and > > > upload this evening. > > > > > > At least gcc appears to compile, though! > > > > I think the new GCC also uses the garbage collector for internal > > memory management. There is a patch for libgc5 in the BTS, but > > I haven't heard anything from the maintainer yet. Though I did > > bump the severity of the bug to important. > > For such important packages it is often advisable to short cut to the > upstream people, so that we can get fixed packages as soon as possible.
I sent a copy of the patch to Hans Boehm. Hopefully he will move on it faster then the debian maintainer. However the patch also contained a modification of the debian/rules file, so it will have to be NMU'd if the maintainer doesn't apply it any time soon. Igor
