Package: gcc-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-21 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Perhaps I should have said it breaks the entire system because depending on what drivers you need, most GUI applications are severely affected and you have no reasonable way to try new driver versions. I just did a dist-upgrade. Kernel version 2.6.16-1-686 You can't recompile kernel modules because the kernel was compiled with gcc 4.0 and you can not compile loadable kernel modules with gcc 4.1 for a kernel compiled with 4.0. Actually, you can compile them but you can't load them because of the kernel version difference. Without the ability to compile kernel modules, you can't recompile the nvidia drivers (direct from nvidia). And there are SEVERE display update problems in the current configuration. gcc-4.1 should not have been put in unstable without also putting in a new kernel version that was compiled with 4.1 as well as all the packages which include loadable kernel modules. Also, gcc-4.1 should have had "conflicts with kernel-2.6.16-1-686, etc.". See bug #4047244 (kernel) and #282183 (nvidia drivers) -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages gcc-4.1 depends on: ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpp-4.1 4.1.1-21 The GNU C preprocessor ii gcc-4.1-base 4.1.1-21 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libssp0 4.1.1-21 GCC stack smashing protection libr Versions of packages gcc-4.1 recommends: ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Development Librari pn libmudflap0-dev <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]