Bug#442950: g++-4.2: -Wwrite-strings getting turned on for no aparent reason

Package: g++-4.2 Version: 4.2.1-4 Severity: minor Hi. Sometime in the last month or so, g++ has started spitting out at me a bunch of "warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’" messages. This apparently comes from -Wwrite-strings. However, according to the man/info pages, thi

Bug#317698: please add update-alternatives support to gcc packages

Package: gcc Version: 4:4.0.0-1 Severity: wishlist It is a sad but true fact that some people write silly make files which don't respect CC environemnt variables and other such ways of specifying gcc version. It would be nice if gcc were integrated into the update-alternatives system, so that one

Bug#311293: gcc should recommend automake1.9 instead of old pacakge automake

Package: gcc Version: 4:3.3.5-3 Severity: wishlist Gcc currently recommends automake, which is only provided by the very old automake1.4 package. I think it should probably recommend automake1.9, or perhaps automaken, which is provided by all the automake packages. -- System Information: Debian