[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#523496: Bug#523496: octave3.0-headers: tight gcc dependencies incorrect

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> writes:

> Sure, I have overseen this.  I will fix it tonight.

Thanks!

> At any rate, I do not understand why you suggest to depend on both gcc and
> gcc-4.3.  Would the following be okay?
>
>     gcc (>= 4:4.3.3), gcc (<< 4:4.3.4)

No, because gcc's dependency on gcc-x.y merely specifies a lower
bound; when a new upstream version comes along, gcc-defaults can lag
for weeks until there's a reason to force a higher subminor version,
and even then the dependencies continue to allow for even newer
upstream versions.  As such, you merely need a gcc package that
depends on the appropriate gcc-x.y package, but you must additionally
specify tight dependencies on the latter.

> Unfortunately we need to depend on a precise version (4.3.3 currently
> because paths containing this version number is hard-coded in mkoctave.

So I gather; it would be great if you could somehow fix that.

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