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Re: PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:34:57AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > In the future I would like to do this more objectively. To that end I
> > am proposing:
> >
> > At the time GCC version 3.n is released, all targets which have not
> > had a successful build and test report posted to gcc-testresults
> > for prereleases of minor version n, or releases n-1 and n-2, go on
> > the obsoletion list for version n+1. "Successful" means minimum
> > useful functionality: it's okay if only the C compiler works.
>
> I'd have an issue with that, because there are many targets in active
> use that we never seem to get any reports for. The Debian folks are the
> biggest example: they maintain about 11 different platforms and do
> detailed bug tracking, yet we rarely get any reports from them.
> In many cases they appear to do their own patches, if we break some port.
>
> Now, I suppose if you want to threaten the Debian people with the loss of
> their platforms, they might actually send us success reports. But is that
> the way we want to play?
Eh? Matthias sends in test results from Debian GCC packages routinely,
especially during releases. I see maybe a dozen every week go by. And
we forward relevant bugs to GNATS on a regular basis.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer