Bug#654727: grub2: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.5)

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:13:05PM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: grub2
> Version: 1.99-14
> Severity: important
> User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: non-standard-compiler, gcc-4.5
> 
> This package builds with a non standard compiler version; please check
> if this package can be built with the default version of gcc/g++/gfortran.
> 
> Please keep this report open until the package uses the default
> compiler version for the package build.

grub2 can't use the default compiler version because it is very
sensitive to things like size changes in compiler output which need to
be manually checked lest we render users' systems unbootable.  However,
I've bumped it to GCC 4.6 for the next upload.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]