Bug#440489: Provides of gcc-4.2

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

Nikita V. Youshchenko writes:
> 
> > Package: gcc-doc
> > Version: 4:4.1.1.nf3
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > gcc-4.2 /suggests/ gcc-4.2-doc, but does not /provide/ that package.
> 
> nikita@blacky:~> LANG=C apt-cache policy gcc-4.2
> gcc-4.2:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 4.2.1-4
>   Version table:
>      4.2.1-5 0
>         600 http://blacky unstable/main Packages
>      4.2.1-4 0
>         620 http://blacky testing/main Packages
> nikita@blacky:~> apt-cache show gcc-4.2-doc | egrep 'Source|Section'
> Section: doc
> Source: gcc-4.2
> Section: doc
> Source: gcc-4.2
> 
> So gcc-4.2-doc is really built from gcc-4.2 source.
> 
> Short before etch, there was all that story about removing FDL docs from 
> main. And it very looked like etch was going to be released without gcc 
> documentation even in non-free. Because availability of compiler 
> documentation is very important for my personal workflow, I've created 
> gcc-4.1-doc-non-dfsg [non-free] and gcc-doc-defaults [contrib] packages, 
> that provided the documentation.
> 
> Currently, gcc-4.2-doc *is* in main. Does this mean that FDL paranoia has 
> gone to past, or gcc-4.2-doc is in main just in error - I don't know. But 
> depending on this, either non-free and contrib packages should be updated, 
> or gcc-doc should be provided by gcc-defaults (as it was some time ago).
> 
> Matthias, could you please comment on this?

please see my comment in #442445

  Matthias