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Re: boot floppies status



> So just to confirm, it is not necessary for base packages to call 
> dpkg --assert-support-predepends and i386elf-in-kernel in their preinst
> because libc5 and/or ld.so will do it.  Correct?

Not quite.  They do not need to call 'i386elf-...'.  They still need
to call 'dpkg --assert...' and also include a pre-depends for libc5
(>=5.2.18-2).  Especially note the -2 revision since that will be the
one with the appropriate pre-depends for ld.so.

David
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