Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict with it

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes ("Re: Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict with it"):
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> Because they're designed to work together.  That's why the FSF
> includes cpp with gcc instead of packaging it separately.  

This doesn't much sense to me, at least not without more detail.

Why do gcc and cpp need to know each other's particular versions ?

There are lots of other things that are designed to work together
where a bit of version slippage doesn't matter.

Ian.