diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c1f94df9..125f598e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-llvm-toolchain-5.0 (1:5.0~+rc1-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+llvm-toolchain-5.0 (1:5.0~+rc2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
+  * New snapshot release
+  * Force the usage of gcc 6 until the link issues are fixed
   * Remove the temp-unbreak-5.0-build.diff patch to unbreak the build
 
   [ Katsuhiko Nishimra ]
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 5231d68e..65d96aad 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.0), flex, bison, dejagnu, tcl, expect,
     ocaml-findlib [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386],
     libctypes-ocaml-dev [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386],
     dh-ocaml [amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386],
-    g++-multilib [amd64 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 mips mips64 mips64el mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 s390x sparc sparc64 x32]
+    g++-multilib [amd64 i386 kfreebsd-amd64 mips mips64 mips64el mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 s390x sparc sparc64 x32],
+    g++-6
 Build-Conflicts: oprofile, ocaml, libllvm-3.4-ocaml-dev, libllvm-3.5-ocaml-dev,
   libllvm-3.8-ocaml-dev, libllvm-3.9-ocaml-dev
 Standards-Version: 4.0.0
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 6b37fe03..89276451 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DEB_INST		:= $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/
 GXX_VERSIONED_PACKAGE    := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f '$${Depends}' g++ | grep -o 'g++-[0-9][0-9.]*' | tail -n1 )
 GXX_VERSIONED_EXECUTABLE := $(shell dpkg -L $(GXX_VERSIONED_PACKAGE) | grep '/usr/bin/g++-[0-9][0-9.]*' | xargs ls -d | tail -n1 )
 GCC_VERSION              := $(subst /usr/bin/g++-,,$(GXX_VERSIONED_EXECUTABLE))
-
+GCC_VERSION	:= 6
 LLVM_VERSION	:= 5.0
 LLVM_VERSION_FULL := $(LLVM_VERSION).0