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Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95



Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> A more useful question would be, why does gcc-2.95 depend on gcc?  The
> answer, as usual, you could have found for yourself in the changelog:
>
> gcc-2.95 (2.95.3.ds3-5) testing unstable; urgency=low
>
>   * For each binary compiler package xxx-2.95 add a dependency on
>     xxx (>= 1:2.95.3-2). Fixes #85135, #85141, #85154, #85222, #85539,
>     #85570, #85578.
>   * Fix typos. Add note about gcc-2.97 to README (fixes #85180).
>
>  -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>  Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:19:59 +0100
>
> You may refer to all of those bugs for reasons why this is so.

I'd love it if someone could explain the problem in a bit more detail
for me.  I was bitten by this kernel/gcc issue myself, and having
looked at those bug reports I'm still not clear what was happening,
other than that gcc-2.95 was somehow breaking g++/libstdc++ in
testing.

Just curious.

-- 
Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
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