Bug#237023: gcc-3.2: Uninstall of gcc-3.2 attempts to install old python, tcl packages

[Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>]

Package: gcc-3.2
Version: 1:3.2.3-2
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

I tried to uninstall gcc-3.2, but the package insists that it must install old 
versions of python and
other packages in order to uninstall.

Example:

tmp# apt-get -s remove gcc-3.2
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libdb4.2 python2.2 python2.2-dev python2.2-gdbm python2.2-mpz python2.2-tk
  python2.2-xmlbase tcl8.4 tk8.4
Recommended packages:
  python2.2-cjkcodecs python2.2-japanese-codecs x-terminal-emulator
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  g++-3.2 gcc-3.2 libstdc++5-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdb4.2
8 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 765 not upgraded.
Inst python2.2-xmlbase [2.2.2-6] (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing) []
Inst python2.2-mpz [2.2.2-6] (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing) []
Inst python2.2-gdbm [2.2.2-6] (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing) []
Inst tcl8.4 [8.4.3-1] (8.4.5-1 Debian:testing) []
Inst tk8.4 [8.4.3-1] (8.4.5-1 Debian:testing) []
Inst python2.2-tk [2.2.2-6] (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing) []
Inst libdb4.2 (4.2.52-12 Debian:unstable) []
Inst python2.2-dev [2.2.2-6] (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing) []
Inst python2.2 [2.2.2-6] (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Remv g++-3.2 (1:3.2.3-9 Debian:testing) [libstdc++5-dev ]
Remv libstdc++5-dev (1:3.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Remv gcc-3.2 (1:3.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Conf libdb4.2 (4.2.52-12 Debian:unstable)
Conf python2.2 (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Conf python2.2-xmlbase (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Conf python2.2-mpz (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Conf python2.2-gdbm (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Conf tcl8.4 (8.4.5-1 Debian:testing)
Conf tk8.4 (8.4.5-1 Debian:testing)
Conf python2.2-tk (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)
Conf python2.2-dev (2.2.3-9 Debian:testing)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bagpipes 2.4.20-3-k7 #1 Sun Jun 8 01:35:14 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gcc-3.2 depends on:
ii  binutils                 2.14.90.0.2-0.1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpp-3.2                  1:3.2.3-2       The GNU C preprocessor
ii  gcc-3.2-base             1:3.2.3-2       The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-10    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                  1:3.3.3-2       GCC support library

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