should provide unversioned llvm-gcc alternatives symlinks

[dn]

Binary package hint: dragonegg

llvm-gcc-4.2 and llvm-gcc-4.5 both have "Provides: llvm-gcc", so they should actually provide a common interface/symlink at /usr/bin/llvm-gcc, llvm-g++, etc, and drop the "Conflicts: llvm-gcc" that makes it impossible to install both. This way configuration scripts (like LLVM's own) that search the path for 'llvm-gcc' will be able to find them (right now that doesn't work for llvm-gcc-4.2).

To be parallel-installable, the shell scripts in llvm-gcc-4.5 would have to add a -4.5 suffix, the same way that the 4.2 package installs its executables with -4.2 suffixes now.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: llvm-gcc-4.5 2.8~20101006-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 10 16:45:18 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100928)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dragonegg

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

this should be done in a separate binary package llvm-gcc. patch?

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

llvm-gcc-4.2 has been removed from debian. I think ubuntu should do the same and close this bug.

llvm-gcc-X.Y is now produced by dragonegg

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

llvm-gcc-4.2 had already been removed from Oneiric when you made that request:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/llvm-gcc-4.2/+publishinghistory

There is still a dragonegg task open here. Is there anything remaining for the Ubuntu archive admins to do, or is this purely a package maintenance task?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

dragonegg is fine in oneiric