Bug#311160: gcc-4.0: can't coexist cleanly with an earlier version of gcc (libgcc1 upgrade required)

["Alexander Konovalenko" <a-konovalenko@yandex.ru>]

Package: gcc-4.0
Version: 4.0.0-8
Severity: normal
Tags: experimental

gcc-4.0 from experimental depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.0-8).  Thus installing gcc-4.0 requires upgrading libgcc1 to the 4.0 version.  This can potentially break earlier versions of gcc that are installed on the same machine (e.g., gcc-3.3 or gcc-3.4), since they also make use of libgcc1.

Is it possible to make a separate version of the libgcc1 package and library for each version of gcc?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-nka14
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)