should the GCC 4.9 cross compiler be removed from unstable?

Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.toolchain
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

the GCC 4.9 cross compilers are uninstallable in unstable even if the
appropriate foreign architectures are enabled (since they are not kept
in sync with the native gcc-4.9 packages) and have RC bugs "the package
fails to build from source on buildds and has unmet dependencies" which
seem to imply an extra burden for maintenance.

OTOH, gcc-5 and gcc-6 packages seem to have an infrastructure in place
which quickly provides updated cross compiler builds (I haven't used
them at all, but piuparts seems to be happy with them :-)

So should the currently unusable src:cross-gcc-4.9-* be removed from
unstable?


Cheers,

Andreas
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