On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:22:51 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it is too much to ask, because it is impossible to explain the reason > for something which isn't so. gcc 2.95 doesn't require gcc 3.3, it just > requires some version of the 'gcc' package with a version number >= > 1:2.95.3-2.
Which in unstable is 3.3, a completely different version. Which in turns
requires gcc 3.3.
Package: gcc
[SNIP]
Depends: cpp (>= 3:3.3-1), gcc-3.3 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), cpp-3.3 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So saying that 2.95 requires 3.3 is not a stretch at all because it does
through dependancies.
> A more useful question would be, why does gcc-2.95 depend on gcc? The
> answer, as usual, you could have found for yourself in the changelog:
> gcc-2.95 (2.95.3.ds3-5) testing unstable; urgency=low
> * For each binary compiler package xxx-2.95 add a dependency on
> xxx (>= 1:2.95.3-2). Fixes #85135, #85141, #85154, #85222, #85539,
> #85570, #85578.
> * Fix typos. Add note about gcc-2.97 to README (fixes #85180).
> You may refer to all of those bugs for reasons why this is so.
Uh, no. I see no reason why gcc-2.95 must depend on a package which does
nothing more than install a symlink called gcc which, in turn, depends on
gcc-3.3 forcing 3.3 to be installed. Furthermore it is insane that a person
could apt-get install gcc-2.95 ; gcc -v and get 3.3!
> > "Yeah, so what that you asked for exim 3, bind 8, python2.2 and
> > kernel-image-2.4.20. You got them? What do you care that exim4, bind9,
> > Python2.3 and kernel-image-2.4.21 were installed!?" Uh, because I didn't
> > ask for them to be installed?
> You are beginning to rave.
Well, when faced with the idiocy above where noone else seems to see the
problem where when one version is asked for and a completely different version
is installed I think anyone would rave. It isn't that hard a concept to
grasp.
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