Bug#835940: Bug#851871: RM: remove gcc-5 from stretch

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 03:07:03PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Tags: stretch
> 
> Please remove gcc-5, gcc-5-cross and gcc-5-cross-ports from testing.  Now that
> the linux source is built using gcc-6, the list of packages also needing removal
> are acoording to [1]:
> 
>  - nvida-cuda-toolkit
>  - starpu-contrib
>...

Their fix might actually be blocked by outdated information in #835940.

Quoting the relevant part from #835940:

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:23:27AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 28.11.2016 02:08, lumin wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > I successfully compiled caffe with CUDA_8.0.44-2 and
> > clang-3.8 (the current default clang). Maybe we can
> > replace GCC-5 with Clang-3.8 to solve this problem.
> >
> > That means Stretch still has chance to ship CUDA8,
> > and users are expected to compile with Clang/LLVM
> > instead of GCC-6, as long as the CUDA rDepends
> > compile with clang.
> >
> > I only tested caffe-contrib.
>
> My guess is that clang-3.8 will be gone for the release as well ...


What is the final decision regarding LLVM versions in stretch?


> Matthias

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Adrian

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