Hi,

cross-gcc-dev is in a sorry state. To be honest, it is fair to say that
I broke it. How? With lots of help from Matthias, I implemented the
-for-host theme into gcc-14. That happened to affect a lot of code also
touched in these patches. Rebasing the patches has become next to
impossible, but also a significant portion of what they achieved has
actually ended up in the gcc source package. I tried porting the
cross-gcc-dev patches, but that didn't go far. In the end, I went for
reimplementing the patchset from scratch using the old patches as a
template. As a result of a much smaller diff, rebootstrap stopped[1]
using cross-gcc-dev. You may also find a working version[2] in the
patch_gcc_wdotap function of the rebootstrap source.

Now the question arises what to do about cross-gcc-dev? It no longer
covers the default gcc version in trixie. At that point, I see little
reason to include it.

If anyone disagrees with removing cross-gcc-dev from trixie, please
downgrade the severity of this bug.

In any case, cross-gcc-dev was very useful along the way. Thanks to Dima
for having maintained it for so long.

Helmut

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/rebootstrap/-/commit/916611197b58b972dbcba7802bc15a56d5d2c48b
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/helmutg/rebootstrap/-/blob/master/bootstrap.sh?ref_type=heads#L2116

Hi. I'm pretty sure you (Helmut) were the only user of cross-gcc-dev. As
you say, I haven't updated it for a while, and it hasn't been useful to
you either. So I don't see a lot of reason to keep it in the archive,
and removing it would be good.

Thanks for all your work!

Hi. I'm pretty sure you (Helmut) were the only user of cross-gcc-dev. As
you say, I haven't updated it for a while, and it hasn't been useful to
you either. So I don't see a lot of reason to keep it in the archive,
and removing it would be good.

Thanks for all your work!

Dear submitter,

as the package cross-gcc has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1139691

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

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