On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 00:49 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, on lun. 26 mars 2018 19:50:58 +0200, wrote > > Well, a month is a long time indeed. I guess he needed to move forward, > so he dropped; no big deal.
Yes it is a big deal. If somebody spends numerous (spare time, unpaid) hours porting gccgo to Hurd and that work is thrown away then this _is_ a big deal. > But we don't care about previous versions but the last version. See below. > My point is: no, it's not obvious to just commit and forget. While it > *is* obvious to just fix what's currently there. If you don't see why > that commit was a move forward concerning Debian, please do check its > consequences and think about it. ?? > > As I wrote in that bug report, all needed patches are there. And as the bug > > report says: gcc-8 (8-8-20180321-1 and earlier) was successfully built. > > But that's not the latest version, as you said it, even. ?? Latest released Debian version of gcc-8 is 8-8-20180321-1, see https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-8&suite=sid