Re: Could someone explain bug 770025 to me?

Actually, I think I've figured it out. It looks like bugs 770025, which was an extension of bug 736607, were intended to force gcc-4.7 to be upgraded to the Jessie version. However, these changes were then trumped by bug 765379 which just straight-up removed gcc-4.7 from Debian Jessie. https:/

Bug#798029: Impossible to keep gcc-4.7 after upgrade to Debian Jessie

Package: gcc-4.9-base Version: 4.9.2-10 Debian bug 770025 added a "Breaks: gcc-4.7-base (< 4.7.3)" header to gcc-4.9, because it was found in bug 736607 (which relates to gcc-4.8) that the package manager would sometimes leave the system with an older-release version of gcc instead of using th

Could someone explain bug 770025 to me?

In my particular situation, we have software which *must* be compiled using gcc-4.7. I'm a little confused by message #20 which seems to imply that gcc-4.7 could be reinstalled after the upgrade is complete. Thanks, Tim Gokcen