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

[Robert Millan]

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.

-- 
Robert Millan