[GTALUG] question on Debian

[o1bigtenor]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:38 AM Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 10:12:59AM -0600, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> > 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?
>
> If there are other packages that it breaks, they are probably trying to
> coordinate having everything ready before they move everything together.
> They are generally quite good at handling these transitions.
>
> New gcc versions are generally quite good at breaking stuff after all.
> I still haven't tracked down why gcc 9 broke some scipy fortran code,
> while gcc 8 compiles it just fine.  It fails to link due to missing
> symbols for functions that are clearly in the code.  I haven't checked
> if gcc 10 fixes the problem, since I have other things to deal with.
>
Greetings

Sounds like I need to wait - - - - maybe things will get straightened out
before they move to then next stable version. (I'm running testing.)

Thanks folks!