Bug#867853: closed by Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org> (Re: Bug#867853: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=98-no-pie=E2=80=99?=)

[Brian Sammon]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 16:50:03 +0000 (UTC)
Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg at debian.org> wrote:

> updating control file, adding version constraints with versions not in the > archive anymore is kind of useless, speaking about Buster we won't have suc
> gcc versions anymore since at least two stable releases.

Hmmm... the gcc packages involved (gcc 4.9.2-4 and gcc-5 5.2.1-23) are definitely newer than Jessie -- I would think that means they're "technically" Stretch, but I'm not too clear on debian policies.

> >Last question:
> >If I contribute a patch to the debian/control file to do this, would it 
> get applied?
> 
> nobody complained so far about this issue, so you are probably one of the > few people not updating their compiler :)
> 
> I'm really not sure this is worth the effort

Well, I don't think it's much effort, and I'm (still) volunteering to contribute most of the effort.
I'm not sure waiting until more people have a problem with this is the way to go.  And of course, not everyone who has a problem will complain (or will complain somewhere that you would hear them)