Re: Debian packages moved from alph.gnu.org into mirror system?
--- Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Normally, we just use the standard Debian archive. However, sometimes we
> upload packages to alpha.gnu.org. This is usually for one of two reasons:
> 1. The Debian version doesn't compile without changes, and takes a long
> time to fix.
> 2. We need a dummy package to fix broken dependencies, like versioned
> dependencies on libc6-dev packages, which take a long time to fix, too.
I think if a package depends on a versioned libc6-dev it is broken. Doesn't
the alpha port use libc6.1-dev? So, if a versioned libc-dev is needed, the
maintainer should list libc0.3-dev, libc6-dev, and libc6.1-dev.
>
> This happens spontaneous, as we find such issues.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
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James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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