Bug#650238: libgcc1 (4.6.2-4) breaks gcc-4.3 << 4.3.6-1, but, there is no package for gcc-4.3(4.3.6-1)
Eh? How is this "wishlist"?
The bug here is that it is possible, using only Debian-provided packages and the
Debian dependencies system, to get the system into a state where it is not
possible to compile modules for the currently-running kernel.
That sounds like a pretty serious problem to me, and certainly not a wish-list
item; I'd think it would break packages which need to compile modules for each
install or upgrade of the package, e.g. dkms module packages.
If the problem can't (yet) be fixed by updating the packages in question to
actually work again, due to compile problems or whatever else, then it should at
the very least be fixed by modifying dependencies so that the system will refuse
to get into that state.
(Honestly, I think it might be a good idea for each linux-image-*
non-metapackage to at least Recommend the package for the compiler with which it
was built. But that's not quite this same problem.)
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