#1147241 Architecture-specific gcc-16 packages are much larger than gcc-15 equivalents

Package:
gcc-16
Source:
gcc-16
Description:
GNU C compiler
Submitter:
Piotr Jurkiewicz
Date:
2026-09-18 13:57:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1147241#5
Date:
2026-09-09 22:53:50 UTC
From:
To:
The architecture-specific GCC 16 packages are substantially larger than
the corresponding GCC 15 packages. These figures were displayed by
aptitude while upgrading from GCC 15 to GCC 16. I suspect that it might
be a packaging bug (for example debugging symbols were included in all
GCC binary packages, etc.).
#1147241#10
Date:
2026-09-18 13:54:59 UTC
From:
To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gcc-16, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1147241@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> (supplier of updated gcc-16 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:35:21 +0200
Source: gcc-16
Architecture: source
Version: 16.2.0-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Closes: 1147241
Changes:
 gcc-16 (16.2.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Update to git 20260918 from the gcc-16 branch.
     - Fix PR target/127306 (RISCV), PR target/127318 (RISCV),
       PR target/127153 (loongarch), PR target/126932 (RISCV),
       PR middle-end/127256, PR target/126463 (AArch64),
       PR target/126196 (RISCV), PR rtl-optimization/125683, PR debug/125421,
       PR target/127188 (RISCV), PR c++/125642, PR c++/127207, PR c++/123495,
       PR c++/126860, PR c++/124983, PR fortran/127128, PR libstdc++/124121,
       PR libstdc++/127220, PR libstdc++/127219, PR libstdc++/126949,
       PR libstdc++/127325, PR libstdc++/126800, PR target/122535 (PPC),
       PR tree-optimization/127390, PR tree-optimization/127377,
       PR tree-optimization/127262, PR tree-optimization/127130,
       PR tree-optimization/127049, PR tree-optimization/127000,
       PR tree-optimization/127000, PR tree-optimization/126760,
       PR tree-optimization/127391, PR tree-optimization/126658, PR ipa/126153,
       PR tree-optimization/126153, PR ipa/126153, PR libstdc++/127430.
   * Strip compiler executables for release builds. Closes: #1147241.
   * Bootstrap using gnat-14, to be able to remove GCC 15.
   * Add comment why libstdc++.so in the gcc_lib_dir needs to be copy
     of the library, not a symlink.
   * Apply PR target/120165 (m68k only), taken from the trunk.
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