On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 02:27:13PM +0200, Aleksandra Fedorova wrote:
Hi, all,
this is the informational message, no action required.
Upon agreement between gcc maintainers and ELN SIG we would like to
switch ELN buildroot to use GCC11 ahead of Fedora Rawhide.
Though ELN is defined as the buildroot where Fedora Rawhide code is
rebuilt into EL-like environment, in the ELN proposal we also
mentioned that ELN can be used to test certain buildroot-related
features on the side so it doesn't block Fedora Rawhide development.
We think that GCC11 is one such feature, where we can benefit from
testing it first on a small subset of the Fedora content in a separate
environment.
I'm not very enthusiastic about this change.
Fedora maintainers can largely ignore ELN right now, because if stuff
works in rawhide, it will generally work in ELN, and someone else is
taking care of ELN builds.
New GCC releases almost always trigger new compile warnings or bugs
in code. So by pushing GCC 11 into ELN, it feels like we're making
it much more likely that ELN builds will fail, and now Fedora
maintainers have to debug ELN specific problems that won't reproduce
in rawhide branches :-(
Now rawhide will be the latest stream, except for when it is not
the latest stream :-(
Regards,
Daniel
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