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

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 19/01/17 21:17, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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 Their fix might actually be blocked by outdated information in #835940.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?

We are shipping with 3.7 (for ghc), 3.8 and 3.9.

Emilio