The problem is pretty known I guess. What I want to say is that it's still around in Sarge. At least on the alpha port gcc-3.4 doesn't work, I haven't tried any other architectures.
lpha% cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("hello\n");
}
lpha% gcc-3.4 hello.c
/usr/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--as-needed'
/usr/bin/ld: use the --help option for usage information
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
lpha% dpkg -l gcc-3.4 binutils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii gcc-3.4 3.4.1-4sarge1 The GNU C compiler
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and
binary utilities
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