Re: Could someone explain bug 770025 to me?

2015-09-04 Thread Tim Gokcen
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:/

Could someone explain bug 770025 to me?

2015-09-04 Thread Tim Gokcen
Could someone explain the reasoning behind bug 770025 to me? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770025 I'm planning to upgrade from Debian 7 to 8. Why is it necessary for gcc-4.9-base to force the removal of gcc-4.7-base, when these packages share no files in common? In my part