Comment 9 for bug 222876

I investigated why I needed any gcc 3.3 stuff when gcc 4.2 seems to be the latest version. It appears that libstdc++5 depends on gcc-3.3-base. w32codec and tinyos-tools in turn depend on libstdc++5, at least on my system.
Not withstanding that this bug is with the gcc-3.3-doc package (which I have removed) am I mistaken in believing that gcc 4.2 is backwards compatible with older gcc compilers and shouldn't this imply that the dependencies for libstdc++5 and depending packages need to be updated?