Observation on packages

[Iain Buclaw]

On 26 August 2013 05:14, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:58:34PM +0200, Ramon wrote:
>> On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 20:36:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >I don't think GDC is officially a part of GCC yet.
>>
>> From whereever it came and for whatever it's worth:
>>
>> (On mint 14)
>>
>> $ apt-cache search gdc | grep ^gdc
>> gdc - D compiler (language version 2), based on the GCC backend
>> gdc-4.4 - D compiler (version 1), based on the GCC backend
>> gdc-4.6 - GNU D compiler (version 2), based on the GCC backend
>> gdc-v1 - D compiler (language version 1), based on the GCC backend
>
> I don't understand your point?  I already said gdc is in the Debian
> archive. But it's not part of the upstream GCC code; it's built from a
> separate source package that basically contains Iain's diffs to the gcc
> sources. The build scripts download & unpack the upstream gcc sources
> and patch it in order to build the gdc binaries.
>
>

We are essentially part of the same source package as gcc in Debian
(and thus, all Debian derivatives that use unstable) now.

This was to simplify maintenance for myself and the Debian gcc maintainers.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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