Bug 24883

Summary: Is releasing an old gcc version in Mageia 7 a good idea?
Product: Mageia Reporter: Adelson Oliveira <adelson.oliveira>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: tmb
Version: 7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: gcc 9.1 CVE:
Status comment:

Description Adelson Oliveira 2019-05-31 03:51:17 CEST 
Please, allow me to suggest updating gcc to its more recent stable version (9.1) in mageia 7 next release.


Thanks
Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2019-05-31 07:50:08 CEST 
No.

gcc 9 branch still has a lot of issues including miscompilations and causing data corruption on new kernels an so on, so we dont consider it production ready.

Not to mention switching compiler would mean triggering a full distro rebuild and fixing up all the fallout from it. That would cause a huge delay in the release process, and that is a no-go as we are already in release freeze and about to release our release candidate.

We prefer to stick with a compiler that has stabilized properly and will work well for Mageia 7 lifetime.

bigger version number is not always better...

I know some distros have switched to gcc 9, but thats their choice, and they will have to live with it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX