Comment 5 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 08:29:37PM -0000, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Regarding the move to GCC 12, it's simply because gcc-10 is in the
> process of being dropped (at the very least in Debian), and at least
> Debian dropped the versioned dependency, so following that, we'd start
> building with GCC 12.

That is not an argument for also having to do the work to provide a newer
gcc in focal.

grub2-unsigned in Debian should thus build-depend on gcc (>= 10) | gcc-10 so
that the build-deps are satisfied in each series; and then we need to sort
out gcc-10 for bionic.