On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:00:26PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 03/05/17 01:58 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: > > On 5/3/17 6:43 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> > >> I am asking about this because I have been asked to look into > >> packaging software that has a specific requirement for >=gcc-6 in order > >> to build [1]. > > > > As I said few times, we should dump gcc-5 sooner than later and any > > software that does not build with gcc-6 should be p.masked and dropped > > from the tree if there isn't a nice fix for it. > > Just a heads-up, that p.mask list would happen to include firefox and > thunderbird right now. So if we don't p.mask those, is them breaking with gcc-6 still enough to keep gcc-6 out of ~? If not, I definitely +1 what lu_zero said, let's add ~keywords to gcc-6. William