Bug#606221: Downgrade gcc dependency to recommends - Or: What's the gcc dependency for?

[Loïc Minier]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> pbuilder depends on gcc, so it pulls in a compiler on a system, where I don't
> want to have a compiler for everybody. But why does it depend on gcc? There
> is no gcc dependency for (c)debootstrap like stated in the changelog entry for
> 0.10. Further the gcc dependency had been removed in version 0.187. There is
> no information about why it has been re-added nor when? Can this dependency
> please be dropped (fortunately already for squeeze) or downgraded?

 This might be for dpkg-dev/dpkg-source which guesses the host system by
 looking at gcc -dumpmachine; see /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Arch.pm

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Loïc Minier