Bug#126675: gcc: please honor user's gcc symlink setting

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

Joseph Carter writes:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:37:31PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > using dpkg-divert should work even when upgrading the package.
> 
> That's a bit less hackish I suppose than futzing with the symlink
> directly, but I still believe /etc/alternatives would be a good thing
> here.  If you disagree, that's fine, but I'd ask that the gcc symlink move
> to gcc-3.0 after woody's release all the same.  I've been using it since
> the release of 3.0.2 and have had it break only on some #define abuse in
> epic and a few things that were clearly broken such as var = var = value
> and that like.
> 
> Please consider it, at any rate.

sure, after woody, we will change the default gcc/g++. But probably to
gcc-3.1, when this version is released in April 2002. I think it does
not make sense to switch to 3.0 in (say February) and then again in
April.