Bug 1960295

Summary:	CompilerPolicy Change
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ben Cotton <bcotton>
Component:	Changes Tracking	Assignee:	Tom Stellard <tstellar>
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Version:	35	CC:	bcotton, gregory.lee.bartholomew, tstellar
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Description Ben Cotton 2021-05-13 14:45:44 UTC

This is a tracking bug for Change: CompilerPolicy Change
For more details, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompilerPolicy

Fedora has historically forced packages to build with GCC unless the upstream project for the package only supported Clang/LLVM.  This change proposal replaces that policy with one where, given a good technical reason, a packager may:

If you encounter a bug related to this Change, please do not comment here. Instead create a new bug and set it to block this bug.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2021-08-10 12:32:42 UTC

Today is the "Code complete (testable)" deadline in the Fedora Linux 35 release schedule:
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-35/f-35-key-tasks.html

If this Change is complete enough to be tested, please indicate this by setting this bug to the MODIFIED status. (If it is 100% complete, you can set it to ON_QA).

If you wish to defer this Change to Fedora Linux 36, please needinfo bcotton.