Debian Bug report logs - #337558
RM: gccchecker -- RoM; dead upstream; only works with gcc 2.95; valgrind provides better functionality

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: please remove gccchecker package

Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:52:34 -0800

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Please remove the gccchecker package, for several reasons:

        * It works only with GCC 2.95, not with any earlier or
          later version.  It requires compiler support that was
          added in 2.95 and has been removed from later
          versions.  It seems unlikely that support will be
          restored in any later version.

        * valgrind provides all the features of Checker, without
          the need to recompile programs and (especially) to
          write a stub for every library function.

        * Upstream development has been stalled since 2000 or
          before.

        * As far as I know, no one is actively using Checker.

        * C++ support has never worked properly.

        * gccchecker dependencies are blocking the removal of
          libgd-gif, which is otherwise not used by any other
          package (according to Martin Michlmayr
          <tbm@cyrius.com>).

I am an upstream co-maintainer of Checker, but I've done no work
on it or the Debian package in a long time.
-- 
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 and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory,
 but to keep the structure of society intact."
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Message #12 received at 337558-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 337558-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: gccchecker@packages.debian.org, gccchecker@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#337558: fixed

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:19:35 -0800

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

gccchecker | 0.9.9.1.20011205-15.1 | source, i386

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 337558@bugs.debian.org.

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