On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:13 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Baho Utot schrieb: > > -1 from me > > > > > > IMHO I would like it to see them stay in extra > > > > For example : imlib which has errors compiling with gcc-4.4.0 > > compiles fine with gcc-3.4 > > Every normal package can be fixed to compile with the latest gcc, the > right way is always to do that, not to stick to legacy compilers > (besides, imlib must have built with 4.3.0, so the issue must be a minor > non-standard-compliance in the code). > > qemu was an exception because its code generators relied on the way gcc3 > generated the code. About virtualbox, it probably suffers from similar > problems. But those are special cases - imlib is certainly no reason to > keep a legacy compiler. > I have encountered many packages in extra that don't compile with gcc-4.4.0. The easy way to fix them is to compile them with gcc-3.4
