[Nix-dev] 16.03 in gcc5.3, master in gcc 4.9?

[Domen Kožar]

We rushed binutils/gcc5 into 16.03 to get it there in time. It's far from
ideal, but
please open issue if something is not working on 16.03.

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 02:10:44PM +0100, joachifm at fastmail.fm wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016, at 01:59 PM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> > > How weird. Why that was merged into 16.03 and not into master? Why
> isn't
> > > master the first step to 16.03?
> >
> > Because releases are linux only and so are unaffected by the darwin
> > breakage. This way we get the feature into the release while minimising
> > disruption for nixpkgs users. Makes sense to me.
> >
> > > So, should we push fixes for gcc5 into 16.03? Will that be merged into
> > > master? Should these go to staging?
> >
> > I'd expect that staging ends up being merged into master at some point,
> > so putting fixes into staging makes sense to me.
>
> I really expected 16.03 to be more stabilised than master, when I switched
> my 15.09 to 16.03 to help in stabilisation. It seems that it's the other
> way round, now.
>
> Is it just to be able to say 16.03 instead of 16.04? I don't see that a
> good enough reason to put 16.03 ahead of master in that way. I had to fix
> things that were working on master, and that feels strange.
>
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