Kamaraju S Kusumanchi schrieb: > [I posted this on debian-gcc before. I have not gotten any reply there. So I > am trying my luck here] > > Currently the default gfortran in Debian Sid points to 4:4.3.3-9 . The > gfortran-4.4 is already available, quite stable. Is there any reason why > gfortran 4.4 not the default? > > The reason is that the gfortran's upstream does not backport the patches to > older versions. They only fix bugs in the latest versions (for ex:- > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2009-06/msg00116.html ) So, it is always > better to have the default gfortran point to the latest released version. > > Is there anyway I can possibly help to make this transition?
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