[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

[Jan de Groot]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 09:07 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Baho Utot schrieb:
> > I can do that....if you can stand all the bug reports :)
> > 
> > My script just finished and it found another 400+ that didn't build,
> > that will take some time to go through to find the ones that didn't
> > build because of gcc-4.4.0 errors :)
> 
> You could collect them in one bugreport instead of opening a separate 
> one for each.
> 
> All of these packages have been built at some point, so it is likely 
> they worked with gcc 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 (unless they are ancient and 
> haven't been rebuilt much longer than that). Most of them probably 
> worked with 4.3.
> 
> Once we have to rebuild these packages, we fix them to compile with the 
> current compiler - which is very easy most of the time. If you are 
> building our whole repositories, you will probably find those problems 
> before we do.

I really don't like these collection bugs that contain bugreports for
400 packages with the same problem. Some get fixed, some don't get
fixed, we lose track and after a while it gets closed with message
"probably fixed, open new one if you find more".