Removal of libllvm4.0 from disco/universe

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hello,
>I was wondering why libllvm4.0 (or, more specifically for me,
>clang-format-4) was removed from the 19.04/disco/universe repository
>while an even older version (3.8) is still available.

this seems to be non true...
rmadison -u ubuntu libllvm4.0
 libllvm4.0 | 1:4.0-1ubuntu1~16.04.2 | xenial-security | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
 libllvm4.0 | 1:4.0-1ubuntu1~16.04.2 | xenial-updates  | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
 libllvm4.0 | 1:4.0.1-10             | bionic/universe | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
 libllvm4.0 | 1:4.0.1-10build1       | cosmic/universe | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x

rmadison -u ubuntu libllvm3.8
 libllvm3.8 | 1:3.8-2ubuntu1 | xenial         | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
 libllvm3.8 | 1:3.8-2ubuntu4 | xenial-updates | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x

rmadison -u ubuntu clang-format-3.8
 clang-format-3.8 | 1:3.8-2ubuntu1         | xenial/universe          | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x
 clang-format-3.8 | 1:3.8-2ubuntu3~trusty5 | trusty-security/universe | amd64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el
 clang-format-3.8 | 1:3.8-2ubuntu3~trusty5 | trusty-updates/universe  | amd64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el
 clang-format-3.8 | 1:3.8-2ubuntu4         | xenial-updates/universe  | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, powerpc, ppc64el, s390x

rmadison -u ubuntu clang-format-4
(none)

We usually try to keep the number of llvm-* versions limited... why can't you just use llvm-toolchain-7 or llvm-toolchain-8?


llvm-7 has been backported to bionic, and llvm-8 is in bionic-proposed right now.

cheers,

G.