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Package: libc6-dev-i386
Version: 2.24-12
Severity: normal

The libc6-dev-i386 package has:

Recommends: gcc-multilib

But recommended packages are installed by default, and the above
"Recommends:" is too strong as gcc-multilib is not the only way to
use libc6-dev-i386.

The issue is that installing *any* compiler that depends on
libc6-dev-i386 will have the effect to install the default GCC,
introducing a potential redundancy.

An example:

zira:~> aptitude why gcc-6-multilib
i gcc-snapshot Depends libc6-dev-i386 (>= 2.11)
i A libc6-dev-i386 Recommends gcc-multilib
i A gcc-multilib Depends gcc-6-multilib (>= 6.3.0-9~)

But that would be also true for gcc-5-multilib, which depends on libc6-dev-i386.

The "Recommends:" would make sense only if gcc-multilib were a
virtual package provided by compilers that depend on libc6-dev-i386.
But this is not the case here.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libc6-dev-i386 depends on:
ii libc6-dev 2.24-12
ii libc6-i386 2.24-12

Versions of packages libc6-dev-i386 recommends:
ii gcc-multilib 4:6.3.0-4

libc6-dev-i386 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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On 2017-06-21 13:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

Package: libc6-dev-i386
Version: 2.24-12
Severity: normal

The libc6-dev-i386 package has:

Recommends: gcc-multilib

But recommended packages are installed by default, and the above "Recommends:" is too strong as gcc-multilib is not the only way to
use libc6-dev-i386.

This is actually not correct. gcc-multilib is required even for
compiling with another gcc-X-mutilib compiler as it provides the /usr/include/linux/asm symlink.

I'll therefore revert the change in the next upload. Feel free to report
bugs against gcc-multilib or gcc-X-multilib if you feel it's provided in
the wrong package.

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On 2017-08-13 19:38:11 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

This is actually not correct. gcc-multilib is required even for
compiling with another gcc-X-mutilib compiler as it provides the /usr/include/linux/asm symlink.

I suppose you meant /usr/include/asm.

I'll therefore revert the change in the next upload. Feel free to report
bugs against gcc-multilib or gcc-X-multilib if you feel it's provided in
the wrong package.

OK, I've just reported:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872054

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