Debian Lands GCC 5 In Unstable Repo

Written by Michael Larabel in Debian on 3 August 2015 at 08:42 AM EDT. 3 Comments
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As laid out by the plans last month, GCC 5 has become the default compiler within the Debian "Unstable" archive.

Matthias Klose posted the announcement today about GCC 5 being the default and the libstdc++6 ABI changes. Those interested in the details can read this mailing list post.

Klose has also been coordinating GCC 5 for Ubuntu 15.10.
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