[GTALUG] question on Debian

[Jamon Camisso]

On 2020-11-01 11:12, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> Debian has been holding back updates on language updates like GCC for
> some 3 or more months at this point. I had been waiting to update my
> system hoping that I could get things all together as it were. Today I
> bit the bullet and upgraded a whole bunch of stuff.
> 
> Anyone know why this, imho important, software is being held with no
> updates for so long?

I think the GCC maintainers have been focused on getting gcc-10 ready in
Bullseye:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2020/07/msg00001.html

So I suspect unless there were security issues, they've been working on
that in sid and testing.

Cheers, Jamon