Bug#1081197: linux: please Build-Depends on 'gcc' or on 'build-essential' rather than 'gcc-13'

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

ma 9. syysk. 2024 klo 13.50 Bastian Blank (waldi@debian.org) kirjoitti:
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> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 11:51:17AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > src:linux currently has an explicit Build-Depends on gcc-13. This defeats the whole point of building against whatever 'build-essential' pulls in for the target Debian release, and it results in several GCC suites getting unnecessarily installed. It would instead be desirable for src:linux to Build-Depends on either the generic 'gcc' or on 'build-essential' for its compiler requirements.
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> And how will that work if src:linux uses gcc-13 to build?

Is there any compelling reason for src:linux to hardcode the GCC
version as an explicit dependency?

Martin-Éric