Bug#475864: FTBFSes with gdc and Sparc

[Gonéri Le Bouder]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:01:42AM +0200, Arthur Loiret wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:30:28AM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:

(...)
> `gdc' is a "default" and almost empty package provided by gcc-defaults, which
> Depends on the default gdc version, gdc-4.1 for now. Then if you Build-Depends
> on `gdc' it will install `gdc-4.1' and its deps, with /usr/bin/gdc pointing to
> /usr/bin/gdc-4.1 (same for gdmd). If `gdc' from gcc-defaults is not built
> anymore on sparc, packages Build-Depending on it will FTBFS on sparc because
> they won't be able to install `gdc'.
> 
> But people will still be able to install `gdc-4.1' and use /usr/bin/gdc-4.1
> for D devel on sparc (for tango for example).

Great, thanks.

Cheers,

        Gonéri
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