[arch-general] Status of llvm / clang

[Spencer Collyer]

> No, they don’t get put into [testing], but into [staging] because
> there is a soname bump so everything depending on clang/llvm needs a
> rebuild (see e.g. https://archlinux.org/todo/llvm-13/).
> 
> Before we start anything, we wait a bit so that most projects had the 
> time to do an LLVM 14-based release. For instance, that only happened 
> two weeks ago for intel-opencl-clang: 
> https://github.com/intel/opencl-clang/releases/tag/v14.0.0
> 
> Then we start the rebuild, which depending on the issues arising
> might take another month.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruno/Archange
> 

Ah, I mis-remembered it. Many thanks for the clarification and explanation.

Regards,
Spencer