[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#435275: Bug#435275: octave2.9-headers depends on gcc-3.4

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

Am Montag, den 30.07.2007, 13:27 -0400 schrieb Steven G. Johnson:
> Package: octave2.9-headers
> Version: 2.9.9-8etch1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> In order to install octave2.9-headers, you have to install gcc-3.4 and 
> friends.  Could this please be upgraded to gcc-4.1, since most people 
> nowadays will probably want the newer version?

Just as clarification: the 3.4 stuff comes from g77, the currently used
Fortran compiler. For C/C++ files, normal gcc (currently 4.2?) is used.

Changing the Fortran compiler is a distribution-wide goal, where we
(Octave) are mostly a leaf in a large dependency tree.

	Thomas