Bug#770025: gcc-4.9-base: please add Breaks: gcc-4.7-base (<< 4.7.3) as in gcc-4.8-base

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 13:13:35 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> Package: gcc-4.9-base
> Version: 4.9.1-19
> Severity: important
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> please sync the Breaks between gcc-4.8-base and gcc-4.9-base s.t. both
> include Breaks: gcc-4.7-base (<< 4.7.3).
> This will ensure more consistent upgrade behavior from wheezy to jessie.
> 
> I currently face upgrade problrms in piuparts where a minimal chroot
> keeps gcc-4.7-base installed after a distupgrade (this is taken as a
> reference), but a chroot with some packages to be tested will remove
> gcc-4.7-base because gcc-4.8-base gets installed. After removing the
> packages to be tested the resulting system does not match the
> reference any more ...

This doesn't make sense to me, why should gcc-4.7-base be removed?

Cheers,
Julien