compat-gcc in extras (was: Re: rawhide report: 20060811 changes)
Thorsten Leemhuis
fedora at leemhuis.info
Fri Aug 11 17:13:15 UTC 2006
Dennis Gilmore schrieb:
> On Friday 11 August 2006 07:57, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:11:23PM +0530, Rahul wrote:
>>> buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
>>>> New package compat-gcc-34
>>>> Compatibility GNU Compiler Collection
>>> Why is this needed in Fedora Core?
>> 1) GCC 3.4.6 is the last one to ship with G77, while Gfortran is quite far
>> even in the Fortran77 compatibility, it is not yet there and some people
>> have huge Fortran77 codebases, not to mention that Gfortran runtime
>> is in any case ABI incompatible with G77 runtime
>> 2) similarly, not all third party C++ sources are ready for GCC 4.1.x, so
>> a secondary compiler is often handy until they manage to rewrite it
>> 3) in the end, all that changed from previous amount of binary packages
>> is the addition of one new src.rpm - as many compat-gcc-32 subpackages
>> were nuked at the same time as the number of added compat-gcc-34
>> subpackages
> And none of those reasons stop any of the compat-gcc packages being in
> extras.
Agreed.
> IMHO they all should move to extras.
+1
> gcc should be in core
> compat-gcc-* should be in extras. Unless there is something in core that
> requires the older gcc
<rant>
Well, it seems Core developers don't want to discuss this. I especially
liked the attitude in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201913#c2
<irony>
The comment describes in a nice and verbose way why this package has to
be in Core.
</irony>
</rant>
CU
thl
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