Comment 3 for bug 2015801

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 2015801] Re: gcc-10 backport to bionic needed for grub2

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 12:51:41PM -0000, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> You also cannot necessarily produce working binaries without the correct
> versions of binutils. Stuff fails with sections not being aligned and
> issues like that. Everything messy.

> I do not think we are super interested in gcc-10 backporting right now,
> grub needs to move to gcc-12 soon anyhow, Debian already moved.

Why does it "need" to move to gcc-12? Details required.

I don't care if we wind up with gcc-10 or gcc-12 as the build-dependency, so
long as we have that build-dependency satisfied in our supported series.

> Starting with the opening of lunar+1, stable fwupd-efi, grub, shim
> releases will be built from lunar.

Sure. Doesn't change the overall requirements!