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Re: Why libquadmath0-4.7.2


On 3/12/2013 02:03, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 05/03/2013 16:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>>> I have GCC-4.5.3 installed and I am not going to install the test 
>>> version 4.7.2-1, but setup.exe *wants* to install libquadmath0-4.7.2-1 
>>> even if I have selected "Curr" packages (which should exclude any 
>>> reference to 4.7.2 version...).
>>>
>>> Have we sure it isn't a packaging bug?
>>
>> The crude dependency handling in setup.exe isn't up to the task of
>> allowing per-version dependencies.  So this probably came along because
>> it's required for a newer version of gcc.
> 
>   When last we spoke (on the -apps list), it was suggested that the
> dependencies should remain correct for the curr: version, and people
> installing the test: version should manually install the required dependencies.
> 
>   If it would help, I could upload a 4.7.2-2 later tonight which restores java
> and has the original 4.5.3-3 dependencies?

You'll be retaking maintainership again? I don't mind that, but please
push as much of the patches as possible upstream, it was kind of hard to
wrap my head around the patches to manually apply them.

Thanks.


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