Bug#1068961: llvm-toolchain-18: block migration to testing: to many llvm-toolchain versions in testing

[sylvestredeb at ledru.info]

Le mercredi 26 juin 2024 à 10:51, Drew Parsons <dparsons at debian.org> a écrit :

> 
> 
> > If possible, it would be sensible in principle for debian to drop
> 
> > llvm-toolchain-15 and llvm-toolchain-16.
> > i.e. only keep llvm-toolchain-14 (for llvmlite/numba)
> > and the latest llvm-toolchain
> 
> 
> It belatedly occurs to me that it could be dangerous to drop the interim
> versions of llvm, since at some point llvmlite will upgrade its llvm
> support, and won't necessarily jump directly to the most recent llvm.

I am sorry but I don't think it is reasonable to keep/maintains all the versions of LLVM for a single package.

Cheers
Sylvestre