Re: glibc 2.3.2 and testing
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:46:54PM +0200, Mike Dornberger wrote:
> I'd like to know, why all recently updated and new packages in testing have
> a dependancy on glibc >= 2.3.2? Wouldn't it be enough if they depend just
> on glibc?
Binaries built against glibc 2.3.2 really do depend on glibc 2.3.2 [1].
They may not if built against glibc 2.3.1, but that's a different
matter.
[1] Well, they may depend on glibc 2.3.2, at least. We don't have the
infrastructure yet to pick apart symbol versioning in order to say
for sure, but in the absence of that it's better to be conservative.
On my system 'objdump -p /bin/cat' shows that cat requires glibc
2.3, so glibc alone is certainly not adequate.
> BTW: Why are all those packages going into testing if they are
> uninstallable?
I'm afraid you're mistaken. I've just checked, and there are no packages
currently in testing that depend on glibc 2.3.2. You must actually be
using unstable.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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