On Dec 30, 2021, at 17:41, Chris Jones wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Before arm came along the gccdevel ports indeed did not update that regularly.

They did some years ago. Then for a time they didn't.

> Normally in the run up to a new major release they might see more activity, 
> as we take a look as to if the upcoming release has any issues, but outside 
> that they perhaps would go a month or two between updates. Arm changed that 
> in that currently its still the version with the best support for that 
> platform, as none of the production releases have official support. I suspect 
> once these stabilise, with a production gcc release with full arm support, we 
> will likely go back to the old update patterns.

Since arm and i386 get different versions of gcc-devel, it would be fine to 
update the arm version more frequently than the i386 version.


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