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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 20/01/2017 à 00:14, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit :
> 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 Their fix might actually be blocked by outdated information in #835940.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.
> 
And 3.8 has the default.

Sylvestre