Bug#526629: g++-4.4: circular dependency with libstdc++6-4.4-dev

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

Package: g++-4.4
Version: 4.4.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello Debian GCC Maintainers,

There is a circular dependency between g++-4.4 and libstdc++6-4.4-dev:

g++-4.4          	:Depends: libstdc++6-4.4-dev (= 4.4.0-1)
libstdc++6-4.4-dev 	:Depends: g++-4.4 (= 4.4.0-1)

Given that both package are arch:any, are build from the same source and are
required to be always installed together with the exact same version,
the split is not particulary useful. So I would suggest to merge 
libstdc++6-4.4-dev inside g++-4.4 and g++-4.4 could Provides: 
libstdc++6-4.4-dev to preserve the package name interface.

This would 1) remove the cicular dependency, and 2) reduce the packages count
of Debian by one (and reduce the size of the Packages file).

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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