Bug#158589: libc6: please provide an udeb

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Ben Collins 

| Debian installer using a udeb for libc/libm/libdl/ldso, doesn't make
| much sense to me. Even if we get rid of the backward compatibility,
| you're still looking at over 800k just for libc.so.6, and then 80k for
| ld-linux.so.2. That doesn't even include libm/libdl.

It makes sense.  Trust me.  Or go read the thread on -boot after my
latest post to d-d-a.  Or talk to me on IRC and I'll try to convince
you.

| I suspect debian-installer will need to have a dynamic module for when
| an install image is built, based on the symbols it needs, and then use
| mklibs (like boot-floppies does) to get a stripped down libc from
| libc6-pic.

We do that for the boot image, but one _can't know_ what parts will be
needed later by the udebs installed into the installation image.

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