> g++-3.4 has recently disappeared from testing (although gcc-3.4 is still > there). *Please don't do this!* I=C2=A0rely on my Debian testing system f= > or > hosting application development that needs to work on all kinds of other > platforms, many of which do not run gcc-4 yet. Although I do the initial > work in the latest g++-4, I also want to be able to build with every > flavour of g++-3, and even with g++-2.95 if possible. I will eventually > build on the target platform, of course, but it's great to be able to > check for compiler and library compatibility on Linux first, typically > using a tinderbox arrangement. > > I=C2=A0could of course build my own g++ from source, or add the etch > repository, but this doesn't seem like the right way to solve the > problem.
having versioned packages in the distribution requires us to explicitely remove support for older versioned packages. In the case of gcc-3.4 that should not be a surprise, as gcc-3.4 was not the default compiler for the last stable release. IMO our primary focus is the distribution, which doesn't require g++-3.4 for building packages; if you do have other needs, you have to build it on your own. We cannot provide you with a repository of old compiler versions. > I've noticed the same problem with other packages (eg nVidia drivers) > where older versions of packages are taken out of sid before they are > able to go into testing (eg because they depend on an xorg version that > isn't in testing yet). As a result, there was NO usable nvidia package in > testing for a long time (and may be still: I don't know, because I > switched to ATI hardware in frustration). please address these in separate reports. > Sometimes it feels like testing is the poor relation in the Debian > world, and so it's not so surprising that many people have "defected" to > Ubuntu. Debian testing works well for someone like myself, who wants a > reasonably stable application development platform (ie not sid) but > needs access to relatively up-to-date libraries (eg GTK). I don't see the relation to Ubuntu; these changes will be merged into the current Ubuntu development release with the next merge. There's no special handling unless the MOTU developers decide on it. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
