I don't think it's a good idea to enforce a specific compiler on a project and I remain to be convinced that this makes things any easier to coordinate for our C++11 projects.
But the debian/control is about how Canonical lands thing it its archive and the relevant consensus goes beyond the Mir project. If all the "phone-related projects" do this then we should go along as it doesn't make things much worse.
I don't think it's a good idea to enforce a specific compiler on a project and I remain to be convinced that this makes things any easier to coordinate for our C++11 projects.
But the debian/control is about how Canonical lands thing it its archive and the relevant consensus goes beyond the Mir project. If all the "phone-related projects" do this then we should go along as it doesn't make things much worse.
/me empathizes with David Cameron