[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#676229: gnustep-make: should depend on a chosen version of gobjc, not just "gobjc"

[Wolfgang Sourdeau]

Package: gnustep-make
Version: 2.6.2-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

It is currently impossible to install a dev environment for GNUstep. This is because, on one side, gnustep-make depends on libgnustep-base-dev, which depends on libgnustep-base-XX which currently depends on gobjc-4.6, and, on the other side, gnustep-make depends on gobjc, which is a metapackage depending on gobjc-4.7.
This leaves a situation where both libobjc libs must be installed, while being binary-incompatible with each other (expectedly).

Since this will likely occur again at each update of gcc, gnustep-make should depend on a chosen version of gobjc-XX and stick to it until all packages are rebuilt.
In general, the default version of GCC does not change often during the development of a Debian release and it would provide a safe way to update packages without risking screwing up the GNUstep installation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnustep-make depends on:
ii  gnustep-common [gnustep-fslay 2.4.0-3    Common files for the core GNUstep 

gnustep-make recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnustep-make suggests:
pn  gnustep-base-common           <none>     (no description available)
pn  gnustep-make-doc              <none>     (no description available)

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