James Troup writes: > Package: gcc-3.0 > Version: 1:3.0.2-3 > > All the <foo>-3.0 packages don't depend, recommend or even suggest the > <foo> packages making it possible (especially on hppa where -3.0 is > the default compiler) to install just gcc-3.0 and not have a gcc > symlink which is probably not a good thing?
the motivation was to have the versioned packages indpendent of the "default-compiler", introducing the dependency in the versioned packages would mean a new upload every time an architecture switches the compiler. Is this really a problem? where do packages directly depend on gcc-3.0?
