Bug#753373: libreoffice: Please migrate away from gcc-4.7 in Jessie if possible

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-07-01 07:32, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> reassign 753373 libreoffice
> forcemerge 748004 753373
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 07:17:53AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Would it be feasible for libreoffice to migrate away from gcc-4.7 in
>> Jessie?
> 
> LibreOffice does NOT use gcc-4.7. (It does use cpp-4.7, though)
> 

I meant the gcc-4.7 as in the source package (cpp-4.7 is built from
gcc-4.7). Sorry for the confusing (and the duplicate bug as well).

>> Currently, only libreoffice and grub2 maintains a dependency against
>> it in testing.  We are hoping that we might be able to remove gcc-4.7
>> for Jessie.
> 
> See http://bugs.debian.org/748004.
> 
> I didn't receive a actual answer from doko on whether cpp-4.7 was also going
> to go away.
> 
> I can package ucpp but it needs to go through NEW. Or I use a internal ucpp copy...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rene
> 

Reducing src:gcc-4.7 to just building cpp-4.7 sounds like a reasonable
alternative to removing src:gcc-4.7.

~Niels