new gcc for potato?

2001-06-23 Thread Philip Blundell
I think our current gcc 2.95.4 is stable enough, and sufficiently better than the 2.95.2 in potato, that we should consider making new packages to go into 2.2r4 or whatever the next version is going to be. I guess this should be straightforward enough to achieve. Anybody object to this? If

new gcc for potato?

2001-06-23 Thread Matthias Klose
Philip Blundell writes: I think our current gcc 2.95.4 is stable enough, and sufficiently better than the 2.95.2 in potato, that we should consider making new packages to go into 2.2r4 or whatever the next version is going to be. I guess this should be straightforward enough to achieve.

Re: new gcc for potato?

2001-06-23 Thread Philip Blundell
the current 2.95.4 doesn't builf on s390, but 2.95.3, so it might be necessary to add a reverse-diff (for woody as well). Is there any bug open for this? I couldn't find one from a quick look at the lists for gcc and gcc-2.95. In any case I don't think we have to worry about it for potato --

Re: new gcc for potato?

2001-06-23 Thread Philip Blundell
I sincerely doubt that this will ever get past the Release Manager unless you have a very good, very specific reason. I recommend talking to him before spending your time. I think it's worth making the packages even if the Release Manager (who is that for potato these days, anyway?) won't

Re: new gcc for potato?

2001-06-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 08:23:17PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: I sincerely doubt that this will ever get past the Release Manager unless you have a very good, very specific reason. I recommend talking to him before spending your time. I think it's worth making the packages even if the