Bug#474075: java-gcj-compat: Should not Provide: java5-runtime-headless

Package: java-gcj-compat-headless Version: 1.0.77-4 Severity: important Hello, This bug is related to #471837 against tex4ht which I maintain. I am planning to close that report by replacing the existing Suggests with "Suggests: sun-java5-jre | java5-runtime-headless". Here is the information th

Problems with g++ (Was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies)

Hello, On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Christian Aichinger wrote: > As Steve Langasek detailed in his d-d-a mail[1], unnecessary > dependencies cause lots of problems, as they make transitions > bigger then they need to be. Sorry for the noise. I wrote earlier to Christian Aichinger (and submitted a report

Bug#389555: g++-4.1: Adds un-needed libraries during link

Package: g++-4.1 Version: 4.1.1-13 Severity: minor Hello, Apropos the recent posting by Christian Aichinger and his checklib scripts with output at http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib. Some of these problems (at least in the case of swish++) are caused by the fact that when "g++" is used in the lin