Bug#1084066: amdgcn-tools: Please upgrade build-dep to llvm/clang 18 or 19

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 10/01/2025 à 12:33, Matthias Klose a écrit :
> On 10.01.25 12:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> Control: clone -1 -2
>> Control: reassign -2 src:llvm-toolchain-19
>> Control: retitle -2 llvm-toolchain-19: readd gcn targets
>> Control: block -1 with -2
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:05:59 +0100 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
>>> On 12.12.24 00:07, Bastian Germann wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 18:50:41 +0200 Sylvestre Ledru
>>> <sylvestre at debian.org> > wrote:
>>>>> We would like to remove llvm-toolchain-17 and this package uses
>>> LLVM 17.
>>>>> Please update to 19 (preferred) or 18
>>>> Please also get rid of the unnecessary llvm-* Build-Dependencies
>>> when > updating the llvm version.
>>> we can't do that unless we stop shipping GCC 13, or reverting the
>>> removal of the gcn* targets in LLVM 18.  So probably you should start
>>> working on getting these targets back into LLVM 18 or LLVM 19.
>> I don't see in the changelog for llvm 18 or 19 that the targets were
>> removed, so perhaps the removal was unintentional? Sylvestre, can those
>> be added back, so that amdgcn-tools can move to a newer llvm? This is
>> one of the last blockers for the removal of llvm-toolchain-17 from trixie.
> why is the removal required? There are no known security issues reported
> (checked with the security team), and after an odyssey of the release
> team blocking both llvm-18 and llvm-19 from testing for a long time, not
> encouraging migration to newer LLVM versions, I don't see any necessity
> to drop LLVM 17. If you want to drop one more version, please consider
> dropping 18 instead.

Sorry but I am in favor of the llvm 17 removal. I don't see the point of 
removing 18 and keeping 17.

Thanks

Sylvestre