Re: More packages should provide gcc-docs ?
On 9/6/06, Mumia W. <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Sarge, I recently did this:
$ aptitude show gcc-docs
State: not a real package
That's actually not the right package name. There's no "s".
Provided by: gcc-2.95-doc
$ aptitude search 'gcc-.*doc'
p gcc-2.95-doc - Documentation for the
GNU compilers (gcc,
p gcc-3.3-doc - Documentation for the
GNU compilers (gcc,
p gcc-3.4-doc - Documentation for the
GNU compilers (gcc,
p gcc-doc - Documentation for the
GNU C compilers (gc
v gcc-docs
It seems that there are several packages that should provide
the virtual package gcc-docs, but only gcc-2.95-doc is so flagged.
My understanding is that gcc-doc is supposed to depend on the default
version, so that when the default changes you get an update
automatically. In sid, the dependency is on a non-existent package
(except for i386-hurd). The bug report number is 384809.
In sarge, it should be picking up gcc-3.3-doc, according to
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc-doc .
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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