Bug#650101: please provide separate packages for each major version (clang-3.0, etc)

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le samedi 26 novembre 2011 à 21:15 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit :
> 2011/11/26 Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>:
> > Le samedi 26 novembre 2011 à 15:42 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit :
> >
> >> As some programs (like kernels and bootloaders) are very sensitive to changes
> >> in the compiler, if they use clang as build dependency they may need to require
> >> a specific version.
> > I am not arguing on the concept of this proposal. I agree with you.
> > However, do you think we should do that now ? Version 2.9 is not yet
> > fully functional.
> 
> Well, it's unclear when kFreeBSD will need this, or even if it'll need
> it at all.  I requested it now because I figured it would be useful
> for others anyway.
> 
> What I can say for sure is:
> 
>   - If we need clang, it'll be 3.0 or later, as upstream trunk has
> already switched to 3.0.
>   - Unless something really weird happens, kFreeBSD in Wheezy will be
> built by GCC.
>
> So if it's only for kFreeBSD's sake, I wouldn't worry about this for now.
I just uploaded the version 3.0 just like before. However, I heard your
message and I will try to implement it for clang 3.1.

Sylvestre