[Pkg-octave-devel] fw: gfortran transition release goal proposal

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois at enst-bretagne.fr> [2007-07-26 08:31]:

> So we really have to wait for the others to transition before we do.
> Since the above-mentioned packages have been NMU'd a lot of times, I
> guess that people from -toolchain might do the uploads for the
> transition, and fix the FTBFS(es) I mentioned; I'm not used enough to
> fortran problems to solve wrong options...
> 
> I believe we could transition from g77 to gfortran-4.1 once we have a go
> (and I also believe we'll have, it looks like g77 is gcc3.4-related, so
> gfortran-4.1 should be fine), and once the packages we are
> build-depending upon have transitioned, either ask for binNMUs for our
> packages, or use MUs (with various other fixes), to ensure our packages
> still build fine.

Thanks for the summary.  I guess that the transition will take some non
neglectable amount of time.  I will simply go ahead with octave-2.9.13,
which will still have g77 as B-D.  

Considering the complexity of the g77 -> gfortran transition, I am wondering
why tools like Wotomae or even the BTS are not being used to coordinate the
efforts...
 
-- 
Rafael