Bug#2678: 0.93R6 won't take libc5

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Michael Shields writes ("Bug#2678: 0.93R6 won't take libc5"):
...
> I'm trying to make sure a 0.93R6 system is incrementally upgradable to 1.1.
> I would think that all you need to do is install ld.so and libc5, and make
> sure the kernel supports ELF, and you'll be able to use the new binary
> packages.  I would like to do this now, running a mostly-stable system with
> some additions and upgrades from the development tree.
>
> However, it doesn't actually work -- libc5 requires ld.so >=1.7.14-2, and
> uses Pre-Depends: to enforce that, and therefore requires dpkg to support
> Pre-Depends: by using dpkg --assert-support-predepends, but the dpkg that
> comes with 0.93R6, 1.0.17, doesn't support predepends.

You need to install the a.out dpkg 1.1.5.  This should have been put
in some reasonably obvious place on the FTP site.

Ian.