Bug#119064: gcc-3.0: doesn't depend on gcc

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Phil Edwards writes:
> 
> > 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 'gcc' package is hardcoded to gcc-2.95 right now.  You can have all
> three packages installed, and the symlink doesn't change:
> 
>     % ls -lF gcc*
>     lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Nov  9 13:17 gcc -> gcc-2.95*
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        71324 Oct  6 20:21 gcc-2.95*
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        73900 Nov  4 12:29 gcc-3.0*
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        15656 Nov  4 08:59 gccbug-3.0*
>     %
> 
> Perhaps gcc-3.0's postinst can do something like "if package 'gcc' is
> installed, then update the symlink"?  I'm guessing out my butt here.

we removed the gcc alternatives a year ago, which actually did
this. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/115353 for reasons to remove
the alternatives from gcc.