Package: gfortran-4.0 Version: 4.0.1-2 Severity: normal
I recognise that this is partly a matter of taste; but I would much prefer that gfortran *not* provide a convenience alias to f95. I recognise that it is under my control via update-alternatives; however: Prior to the release of gfortran, anyone requiring an f95 compiler on their system would use one of the commercially available compilers, at least one of which uses the name f95 by default, and others of which people might quite reasonably alias to f95. Previous versions of gcc-4.0 in debian did not use this alias, so I assumed I was safe to continue having a commercial compiler available as 'f95'. Having upgraded today to the latest testing gcc-4.0, I now find all my build scripts failing since 'f95' is not what it was yesterday. I'm sure, when gfortran begins to get wider use, I'm not the only one going to find myself surprised and bemused when all my scripts fail like this - so I think a change of this sort is worthy of a 'NEWS' item. At the very least, a mention of this change somewhere would be nice - I can see no mention in any of the changelogs provided. Toby -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Versions of packages gfortran-4.0 depends on: ii gcc-4.0 4.0.1-2 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.0-base 4.0.1-2 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgfortran0 4.0.1-2 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap ii libgmp3 4.1.4-6 Multiprecision arithmetic library gfortran-4.0 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]