Package: gcc-3.4 Version: 3.4.6-5 Severity: important Stephan Krempel writes: > Dear Debian GCC Maintainers, > > first I want to wish you a happy new year and thank you for your work. > > This time I am a bit confused about some of the package names and > versions. > > libstdc++6 is from source gcc-4.1, but libstdc++6-dbg, -dev, -doc, > -pic are still from gcc-3.4. As a simple user I would expect that > installing libstdc++6[-...] give me everything in matching versions. > > Is there any reason why libstdc++6[-...] are not only dependency > packages depending on the respective package with the default > compiler ABI, at the moment libstdc++6-4.1[-...]? > > As long as we are in unstable this wouldn't be of high interest, but > in the upcomming stable release some users could become very > confused. > > I hope this is not an already discussed issue, couldn't find an old > thread about it.
Indeed, this is confusing. The gcc-3.4 source package builds libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic} which depend on libstdc++6 (>= 3.4.6-5). The gcc-4.1 source package builds libstdc++6-4.1-{dbg,dev,pic} which depend on libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-19). The current version of libstdc++6 satisfies both dependencies, and this is proably wrong. Stephan, the workaround for now is to install libstdc++6-4.1-{dbg,dev,pic}, and remove libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic}. Proposed solution 1: 1) Do not build libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic} from gcc-3.4 anymore. 2) In gcc-4.1, change libstdc++6-4.1-{dbg,dev,pic} to libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic}, with Conflicts and Replaces. Proposed solution 2: 1) In gcc-4.1, change libstdc++6-4.1-{dbg,dev,pic} to Conflict with and Replace libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic}. Proposed solution 3: 1) Do not build libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic} from gcc-3.4 anymore. 2) In gcc-defaults, build libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic} that, in etch, depend on libstdc++6-4.1-{dbg,dev,pic}. I personally vote against solution 2, since we don't build g++-3.4 anymore and so the libstdc++6-{dbg,dev,pic} from gcc-3.4 are useless anyway. I think solution 3 is the best if we want to support multiple versions of g++. -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]