Observation on packages

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 08:12:24AM +0200, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Cool!

But AFAIK, GDC isn't part of the official upstream GCC sources, right?
Or did it get included recently and I missed the good news?


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