Re: GCC 3.3 release criteria

[Ben Collins <bcollins at debian dot org>]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:55:54AM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > From: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
>  > 
>  > Kaveh R. Ghazi writes:
>  > >  > From: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > The Debian GNU/Linux platform should be changed to 3.0 (released last
>  > >  > summer). This is still glibc-2.2.5 based. Is one of the other distros
>  > >  > mentioned glibc-2.3.1 based?
>  > >  > 	Matthias
>  > > 
>  > > The file is now checked in, if you would submit your suggested change
>  > > in patch form, that would be better.
> 
> 
> Thanks Matthias, but seeing your patch two things occur to me:
> 
> One is we don't have a "tester" for x86 Debian (of any version), would
> you like to volunteer to be it?
> 
> Second, the "tester" for sparc Debian is Ben Collins and it's not
> clear if he plans to use 3.0 or if he remains committed to testing at
> all.  I quick search of the testsuite results list shows no postings
> by him, but I think we should check before proceeding.  (I've CC:ed
> him on this message, hopefully he'll respond.)
> 
> If no one steps forward to actually test sparc Debian, I suggest we
> recruit a "tester" and/or find another linux-gnu target since there
> are many sparc postings from others who are actively testing.

I am current testing gcc-3.x. I've not discovered many problems that
weren't already discovered (I'm admittedly a little slower than other
testers).

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