Bug#921877: gcc-snapshot provides c++-compiler yet has no /usr/bin/c++
Package: gcc-snapshot
Version: 1:20190102-1
Severity: normal
Hi!
While "c++-compiler" is conspicuously missing from Policy's list of virtual
packages, it is natural to assume any such package declares an alternative
for /usr/bin/c++ -- otherwise, without a common interface, the virtual
package would be useless (dependencies are for machines not humans).
Thus, could you please either call update-alternatives, or at least drop
the Provides: declaration? While gcc-snapshot is not meant to ever leave
unstable, it does satisfy the dependency thus can get pulled into test
chroots of packages that are supposed to work with _any_ reasonable C++
compiler.
Meow!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.0.0-rc5-debug-00035-g12a002e2de92 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages gcc-snapshot depends on:
ii binutils 2.31.1-12
ii libc6 2.28-6
ii libc6-dev 2.28-6
ii libc6-dev-i386 2.28-6
ii libc6-dev-x32 2.28-6
ii libc6-i386 2.28-6
ii libc6-x32 2.28-6
ii libgc1c2 1:7.6.4-0.4
ii libgmp10 2:6.1.2+dfsg-4
ii libisl19 0.20-2
ii libmpc3 1.1.0-1
ii libmpfr6 4.0.2-1
ii python3 3.7.2-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
gcc-snapshot recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gcc-snapshot suggests:
ii binutils [binutils-gold] 2.31.1-12
-- no debconf information
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