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HEADLINE: Provide rolling compiler packages in stable DESCRIPTION: There are users who simultaneously want to get their infrastructural packages like compiler
by hsivonen 9y ago
HEADLINE: Provide rolling compiler packages in stable
DESCRIPTION:
There are users who simultaneously want to get their infrastructural packages like compilers from their distro and want to build fresh upstream application releases from source.
This leads to pressure for Linux apps and libraries to be buildable using whatever compiler version(s) that shipped in Debian stable, which amounts to Debian stable inflicting a negative externality on the ecosystem by holding apps and libraries back in terms of what language features they feel they can use.
To avoid this negative externality, please provide the latest release (latest at any point in time, not just at time of Debian stable relase) of gcc, clang, rustc+cargo, etc. as rolling packages in Debian stable alongside the frozen version used for building Debian-shipped packages so that Linux apps and libraries aren't pressured to refrain from adopting new language features as upstream compilers add support.
(Arguably, the users in question should either get their apps from Debian stable or get their compilers from outside Debian stable, too, but the above still seems a relevant concern in practice.)
DISTRIBUTION: stable
ROLE: Upstream browser developer. (Not speaking on behalf of affiliation.)