Package: gcc-11 Followup-For: Bug #1005863 X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, debian-pol...@lists.debian.org
Hi folks, Bug #1005863 describes a gcc-11 behaviour that results in software that exits ungracefully on Geode LX i686 hardware. Despite self-reporting as i586 sometimes, Geode LX is in fact an i686 CPU (without physical address extensions and multi-instruction noops -- both optional per spec). My assessment -- which may be incorrect -- is that something like 20% of packages in the bookworm i386 suite are susceptible to the bug, so I think that installing bookworm on a Geode LX system would present users with a poor experience of Debian. Would it be fair to raise the severity of this bug to a release-critical level? I understand that toolchains are an important part of the ecosystem and that changes to them -- especially ones that may affect many packages -- should be undertaken with care, and that we are into bookworm's pre-release hard freeze. Thank you, James
