From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>,
Bernd Schmidt <bernds@redhat.com>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: making a 2.95.4 release
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020328145819.A4905@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020328114900.C90592@dragon.nuxi.com>
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:49:00AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:21:16PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 18:18, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > Does Red Hat and glibc carry more stock than Debian, FreeBSD, NetBSD,
> > > OpenBSD combined?
> >
> > To be fair, from Debian's point of view a 2.95.4 release would make
> > virtually no practical difference. The source tarball we currently use
> > is essentially a snapshot from the top of the 2.95 branch in CVS, and we
> > apply a whole pile of Debian-specific patches anyway, so it makes no
> > real odds to us whether it's annointed as an FSF release or not.
>
> Debian should probably not be calling its GCC "2.95.4" as that confuses
> things as Red Hat's "2.96" did. Having an offical 2.95.4 release would
> legitimize the version of Debian GCC.
drow@nevyn:~% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs
gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)
We don't feel any need to "legitimize" it - we still would almost
certainly be applying patches to a new branch release.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-28 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-28 9:35 David O'Brien
2002-03-28 9:39 ` law
2002-03-28 9:58 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2002-04-02 1:09 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2002-04-02 10:51 ` Joe Buck
2002-03-28 10:19 ` Bernd Schmidt
2002-03-28 11:38 ` David O'Brien
2002-03-28 11:46 ` Philip Blundell
2002-03-28 12:10 ` David O'Brien
2002-03-28 12:22 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-03-28 11:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-03-28 11:58 ` Bernd Schmidt
2002-03-28 12:14 ` David O'Brien
2002-03-28 12:29 ` Bernd Schmidt
2002-03-28 13:26 ` law
2002-04-03 2:57 ` Wolfram Gloger
2002-03-31 6:48 ` Richard Zidlicky
2002-03-31 12:14 Erik Schnetter
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