Public bug reported: With the latest round of removals for Ubuntu Touch-related packages from bionic, gcc-4.8 no longer has any non-alternative reverse-depends.
$ liblist='lib(x32|32|64|sf)?(gomp1|quadmath0|atomic1|itm1|objc4|stdc\+\+6|gfortran3|tsan0)' $ rmadison -s bionic -S gcc-4.8 | grep -E "\b$liblist[[:space:]]" $ reverse-depends src:gcc-4.8 | grep -vE "\b$liblist\)" Reverse-Depends =============== * gcc-4.8-doc (for gcc-4.8-base) * libboost1.62-dev (for libstdc++-4.8-dev) * libboost1.65-dev (for libstdc++-4.8-dev) * nvidia-cuda-toolkit [amd64 ppc64el] (for gcc-4.8) * nvidia-cuda-toolkit [amd64 ppc64el] (for g++-4.8) Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x $ We should drop it from the archive for 18.04. ** Affects: gcc-4.8 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gcc-4.8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756972 Title: RM: gcc-4.8: no longer used Status in gcc-4.8 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: With the latest round of removals for Ubuntu Touch-related packages from bionic, gcc-4.8 no longer has any non-alternative reverse- depends. $ liblist='lib(x32|32|64|sf)?(gomp1|quadmath0|atomic1|itm1|objc4|stdc\+\+6|gfortran3|tsan0)' $ rmadison -s bionic -S gcc-4.8 | grep -E "\b$liblist[[:space:]]" $ reverse-depends src:gcc-4.8 | grep -vE "\b$liblist\)" Reverse-Depends =============== * gcc-4.8-doc (for gcc-4.8-base) * libboost1.62-dev (for libstdc++-4.8-dev) * libboost1.65-dev (for libstdc++-4.8-dev) * nvidia-cuda-toolkit [amd64 ppc64el] (for gcc-4.8) * nvidia-cuda-toolkit [amd64 ppc64el] (for g++-4.8) Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x $ We should drop it from the archive for 18.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1756972/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp