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A tale of two distributions
A tale of two distributions
Posted Jun 9, 2005 21:21 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)Parent article: A tale of two distributions
Debian has older versions of many of the base packages, as they are a pain to upgrade.
Some folks indeed work on gcc4, and occasionally their work yields bug reports for packages that fail to build with it. But it seems that there are just too many of them. Thus so far the default gcc is 3.3.5 with 3.4.3 included as well (and also 2.95.4 and 2.7.2.3) .
OTOH, packages that don't have many dependencies are easier to be kept up-to-date. And there is a pretty good chance that they are and thus you could see more advanced versions of many packages, I figure.
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A tale of two distributions
Posted Jun 12, 2005 14:32 UTC (Sun) by broonie (subscriber, #7078) [Link]
It's more that with sarge trying to release the upheaval of a new default GCC version wasn't considered worth it and since there are no new ports that need it the required work has been set aside until now.