4.1 status?

[Matthias Klose]

Richard Guenther writes:
> On 9/9/06, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > Kenny Simpson wrote:
> > > What is the status of the 4.1 branch?  Any word on 4.1.2?
> >
> > My current plan is to do a 4.1.2 along with 4.2.0.  My concern has been
> > that with 4.2.0 moving slowly, trying to organize another release might
> > just distract the developer community.
> >
> > However, I realize that's a pretty wide gap between 4.1.1 and 4.1.2.  We
> > could also do 4.1.2 sooner, and then do 4.1.3 along with 4.2.0.  (I want
> > to do a 4.1.x release along with 4.2.0 so as to avoid the problems we
> > have in past with quality "going backwards" between releases from
> > different branches.)
> >
> > I'm sure that, a priori, people would prefer a 4.1.2 release, but it
> > does take effort.  On the other hand, many 4.1 bugs are also in 4.2.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> With my vendor hat on I'd prefer a 4.1.2 release sooner than I expect
> 4.2.0 - which would make the time we branch for 4.2.0 a good candidate.
> >From a pure GCC development side I do not care very much about
> 4.1.2 (or even 4.0.4 which I don't expect at all).
> 
> I guess a release of 4.1.2 together with branching for 4.2.0 might encourage
> to backport regression fixes from 4.2 to 4.1, as with stage1 starting, 4.1.2
> will get even less attention than 4.2.0.

+1 for a 4.1.2 release when/after the 4.2.0 branch is created.  I'll
propose this release to the Debian release managers to be included
into the upcoming Debian 4.0 release.

  Matthias