Control: tags -1 + wontfix On 14.10.2016 00:45, Peter Chubb wrote: > Package: gcc > Version: 4:6.1.1-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > I currently have gcc versions 4.7, 5.0 and 6.0 installed. I'd > like to be able to switch between them on a regular basis. The > simplest way to do this would be to use update-alternatives to > switch, but currently /usr/bin/gcc and its friends > are direct symlinks to /usr/bin/gcc-6 > > By `friends' I mean cpp, c++, c89 c99 gcc-ar gcc-ranlib gcc-nm etc. > > The same goes for the various cross compilers (arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc etc)
no it should not. different GCC versions can offer different ABI versions, use the versioned names to select a specific version. "Simple" isn't correct here.
