Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 21-Jan-05, 12:51 (CST), Martin Kittel <debian@martin-kittel.de> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I am maintaining the packages of the MaxDB database system.
> 
> [snip]
> In that case I will have to add a dependency on kernel-image-2.6 or does 
> anyone know of a better way to express a dependency on NPTL style threading?

I'm with Lars. Anyone installing DBMS who can't be bothered to read the
package description that says "requires kernel 2.6" is going to have
more problems than you can even think about solving with "Depends".

Steve

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