Removing -frwitable-strings

[Nathan Sidwell]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 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.
ok, then deprecating it in 3.3 will be a good thing for debian, as they'll
get a heads up now that it's going away (should they be tracking the point
releases). Deprecating in 3.4 would not give that warning.

nathan

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