Subject: bug#43303: GCC package name

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:43:21 +0200

Hi Ricardo,

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 13:31, Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > What is the best for #2?  Add 2 optional arguments to 'custom-gcc'
> > (synopsis and description)?  Other?
>
> custom-gcc returns a package value, so we can inherit from that and
> overwrite the synopsis and description fields.

Well, custom-gcc is already an inherit.  So it seems awkward to inherit twice.
But yes, since it is the only case, it could be the simplest:
gccgo-4.9 would become only 'define' and a new 'gccgo' would be
inherit from gccgo-4.9 and would be define-public.

Cheers,
simon