Comment 2 for bug 156524

Ubuntu 7.04:

apt-get install gfortran automatically gives me libgfortran1-dev installed by dependencies.

jpye@ascend:~/ascend$ dpkg -L libgfortran1-dev
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/libgfortran.a
/usr/lib/libgfortran.la
/usr/lib/libgfortranbegin.a
/usr/lib/libgfortranbegin.la
/usr/lib64
/usr/lib64/libgfortran.a
/usr/lib64/libgfortran.la
/usr/lib64/libgfortranbegin.a
/usr/lib64/libgfortranbegin.la
/usr/share/doc/libgfortran1-dev
/usr/lib/libgfortran.so
/usr/lib64/libgfortran.so

jpye@ascend:~/ascend$ ls -l /usr/lib/libgfortran.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-11-11 19:14 /usr/lib/libgfortran.so -> libgfortran.so.1.0.0

Ubuntu 7.10:

"apt-get install gfortran" does *NOT* install libgfortran2-dev:

john@thunder:~/ascend$ sudo apt-get install gfortran
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gfortran-4.2 libgfortran2 libmpfr1ldbl
Suggested packages:
  gfortran-multilib gfortran-doc gfortran-4.2-multilib gfortran-4.2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gfortran gfortran-4.2 libgfortran2 libmpfr1ldbl
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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In fact it appears that no libfortran2-dev package exists! What's the rationale there?