Public bug reported:

[filed for gcc-4.7, because gcc-4.8 isn't yet available in LP]

Proposing to upload gcc-4.8 to raring (as packaged in the ubuntu-
toolchain-r/test PPA).

Rationale: Make gcc-4.8 available to developers in the latest Ubuntu
release for development purposes. GCC-4.8 will become the default GCC in
the s-series, and the next LTS release, so exposing this earlier to (not
only Ubuntu) developers might be good idea. This is not a proposal to
make gcc-4.8 the default at this point (well, maybe except for gccgo,
which doesn't have any reverse build dependencies).
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html shows the list of changes.

The runtime libraries in GCC didn't bump soversions in 4.8 (except for
libgo and libgcj). These are the packages then built from the gcc-4.8
sources instead of the gcc-4.7 sources. The compilers stay the same.

The proposal includes updating the gcc-4.8 package to a 4.8.1 release as
a stable release update for raring.

I'm running a raring desktop with the binaries installed from the
gcc-4.8 source package since January without problems. Same for armhf
build environments.

** Affects: gcc-4.7 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gcc-4.7 (Ubuntu Raring)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: gcc-4.7 (Ubuntu Raring)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: gcc-4.7 (Ubuntu Raring)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-13.04-beta-1

** Description changed:

  [filed for gcc-4.7, because gcc-4.8 isn't yet available in LP]
  
  Proposing to upload gcc-4.8 to raring (as packaged in the ubuntu-
  toolchain-r/test PPA).
  
  Rationale: Make gcc-4.8 available to developers in the latest Ubuntu
  release for development purposes. GCC-4.8 will become the default GCC in
  the s-series, and the next LTS release, so exposing this earlier to (not
  only Ubuntu) developers might be good idea. This is not a proposal to
  make gcc-4.8 the default at this point (well, maybe except for gccgo,
  which doesn't have any reverse build dependencies).
  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html shows the list of changes.
  
  The runtime libraries in GCC didn't bump soversions in 4.8 (except for
  libgo and libgcj). These are the packages then built from the gcc-4.8
  sources instead of the gcc-4.7 sources. The compilers stay the same.
  
  The proposal includes updating the gcc-4.8 package to a 4.8.1 release as
  a stable release update for raring.
+ 
+ I'm running a raring desktop with the binaries installed from the
+ gcc-4.8 source package since January without problems. Same for armhf
+ build environments.

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