Bug#46036: gcc: Packages thrown away on upgrading to potato version

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

reassign 46036 apt
thanks

I do not see any dependency of gcc to libncurses4-dev. I do not know
if it's a bug in apt-get. The removal of checker is correct, as
gcc-2.95 doesn't work with checker.

Jutta Wrage writes:
 > Package: gcc
 > Version: 2.7.2.3-7
 > 
 > I have installed above version of gcc.
 > If I try to upgrade to the gcc-package from potato, Not all packages purged will be updated.
 > 
 > libncurses4-dev and checker will be removed without any replacement.
 > timezones seems to be replaced by the new libc6 package.
 > 
 > apt-get -s install gcc
 > Reading Package Lists... Done
 > Building Dependency Tree... Done
 > The following extra packages will be installed:
 >   cpp libc6-dev libc6 ldso
 >   The following packages will be REMOVED:
 >     timezones libncurses4-dev checker
 >     5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 292 not upgraded.
 >     Remv checker
 >     Remv libncurses4-dev
 >     Remv timezones
 >     Inst ldso
 >     Conf ldso
 >     Inst libc6-dev []
 >     Inst libc6
 >     Conf libc6
 >     Inst gcc []
 >     Inst cpp
 >     Conf libc6-dev
 >     Conf cpp
 >     Conf gcc
 >     
 > cu
 > 
 > Jutta
 > 
 > -- System Information
 > Debian Release: 2.1
 > Kernel Version: Linux avalon.westfalen.de 2.0.36 #4 Fri Apr 2 17:20:18 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
 > 
 > Versions of the packages gcc depends on:
 > ii  libc6           2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries
 > ii  cpp             2.7.2.3-7      The GNU C preprocessor.
 > ii  cpp             2.7.2.3-7      The GNU C preprocessor.
 > ii  binutils        2.9.1.0.19a-2  The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti