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Package: gcc-4.1
Version: 4.1.1-21
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Perhaps I should have said it breaks the entire system because depending
on what drivers you need, most GUI applications are severely affected
and you have no reasonable way to try new driver versions.
I just did a dist-upgrade. Kernel version 2.6.16-1-686
You can't recompile kernel modules because the kernel was compiled with
gcc 4.0 and you can not compile loadable kernel modules with gcc 4.1 for
a kernel compiled with 4.0. Actually, you can compile them but you can't
load them because of the kernel version difference. Without the ability
to compile kernel modules, you can't recompile the nvidia drivers (direct
from nvidia). And there are SEVERE display update problems in the
current configuration.
gcc-4.1 should not have been put in unstable without also putting
in a new kernel version that was compiled with 4.1 as well as all the
packages which include loadable kernel modules. Also, gcc-4.1
should have had "conflicts with kernel-2.6.16-1-686, etc.".
See bug #4047244 (kernel) and #282183 (nvidia drivers)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages gcc-4.1 depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpp-4.1 4.1.1-21 The GNU C preprocessor
ii gcc-4.1-base 4.1.1-21 The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libssp0 4.1.1-21 GCC stack smashing protection libr
Versions of packages gcc-4.1 recommends:
ii libc6-dev 2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Development Librari
pn libmudflap0-dev <none> (no description available)
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