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Re: Removing -frwitable-strings
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:11:29PM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Joe Buck wrote:
>
> >If similar ratios hold for the Debian distro (with 10,000 packages),
> >it suggests that 100 will break. That might be a show-stopper. In
> >any case, in the past when we have deprecated a feature we've done it
> >over two *major* releases, as in: deprecate in 3.4, remove in 3.5.
> The debian site says <http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/>
> 'The major planned changes for sarge currently include ...
> and use of GCC 3.2 as the default compiler on architectures that used
> 2.95 so far.'
>
> which suggests it will be immune from any deprecation in the immediate
> future.
That information is, however, obsolete. It's actually 3.3.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer