Package: gcc-3.4 Version: 3.4.6-7 Severity: important
I recently had trouble when upgrading to the latest debian patch of legacy gcc-3.4-7. Apparently, there is no corresponding g77-3.4-7 as would seem to be confirmed by the changelog. * Don't build the following languages from the gcc-3.4 sources: - Pascal, now based on the GCC-4.1 sources. - Fortran 77, now superseded by GFortran built from the GCC-4.3 sources. - C++, having a different ABI for g++ (>= 4.1) in lenny on four release architectures. - C for 64bit hppa, kernel builds use gcc-4.x. I'm not quite sure I see why having more recent versions justifies removing these languages from the legacy package. It is there for backwards compatibility is it not? I fully agree that we need to get FORTRAN out of the stone age, but it would be nice to at least have the old version available to ease the transition. This should especially not be a problem since there's no collision between the exectuable names (g77 vs. gfortran). Even if we were to do something like symlink g77 to gfortran in the long run, couldn't this be handled by /etc/alternatives? Kevin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-amd64.016 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gcc-3.4 depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpp-3.4 3.4.6-7 The GNU C preprocessor ii gcc-3.4-base 3.4.6-7 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-2 GCC support library Versions of packages gcc-3.4 recommends: ii libc6-dev 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Development Librari -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]