Bug#961159: lib32{,x}gcc-s1: please provide lib{,x}32gcc1 (= 1:${binary:Version})

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:25:21AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 8/12/20 11:16 PM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 02:15:51PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> >> On 21/05/2020 14.05, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >>> On 5/20/20 10:32 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> >>>> With the transitional packages gone in 10.1.0-2, please add versioned
> >>>> (epoched!) provides on the old names (as already done in libgcc-s1)
> >>>> in order to keep old packages installable along the latest gcc.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to avoid that.  Please build the nvidia packages using the new package
> >>> names.
> >>
> >> This has nothing to do with nvidia. This breaks keeping old compilers
> >> around, which so far worked fine for a long time.
> > 
> > Seconded. I have all versions of gcc starting at 4.4 that I would like
> > to keep, but the upgrade require to remove them.
> 
> I don't want to do that. What exactly depends on the non-default multilib libraries?

# apt-get dist-upgrade
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  g++-4.4-multilib g++-4.5-multilib g++-4.6-multilib g++-4.7-multilib g++-5-multilib
  g++-6-multilib gcc-4.4-multilib gcc-4.5-multilib gcc-4.6-multilib gcc-4.7-multilib
  gcc-5-multilib gcc-6-multilib lib32asan0 lib32asan1 lib32asan2 lib32asan3 lib32asan4
  lib32cilkrts5 lib32gcc-4.7-dev lib32gcc-4.8-dev lib32gcc-4.9-dev
lib32gcc-5-dev
  lib32gcc-6-dev lib32gcc-7-dev lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++-4.9-dev
lib32stdc++-5-dev
  lib32stdc++-6-dev lib32stdc++6-4.7-dev lib32ubsan0
libclang-common-5.0-dev libgc1c2 libgcc1
  libx32asan0 libx32asan1 libx32asan2 libx32asan3 libx32asan4
libx32cilkrts5 libx32gcc-4.7-dev
  libx32gcc-5-dev libx32gcc-6-dev libx32gcc-7-dev libx32gcc1
libx32stdc++-5-dev
  libx32stdc++-6-dev libx32stdc++6-4.7-dev libx32ubsan0

libgcc-s1 Provides: libgcc1 (= 1:10-20200418-1) which is OK.
However lib32gcc-s1 does not provides lib32gcc1 (= 1:10-20200418-1)
so packages depending on lib32gcc1 are broken.

I like to add: I have all these compilers available for test purpose
on my system thanks to your hard work packaging gcc over so many years.
It is really neat. It would be sad to lose all this now. 

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

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