On Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 11:43:50PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >I want to repeat that your rationale for using an older compiler does >not match well with reality. > >When Matthias does gcc (or openjdk) uploads to unstable, this tends to >happen in a batch of half a dozen versions. > >Number of uploads to unstable during Q1 2026: >4x gcc-11 >3x gcc-12 >6x gcc-13 >4x gcc-14 >4x gcc-15 >4x gcc-16[1] > >A point could be made that newer versions contain more changes, >but every version is a moving target - especially >= 13 where >unstable gets updates from the maintained upstream stable branch >1-2 times per month.
ACK, fair enough - thanks for the data! I guess I've just been lucky in the past. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] The two hard things in computing: * naming things * cache invalidation * off-by-one errors -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
