Re: libc6 too unstable ?
I should take this time to put in a concern of mine.
My machine that I do development on is largely running stable. As I
use it for other things besides Debian and have a limited amount of
time, I cannot afford to run unstable on it, especially with such
drastic changes. The good news is: none of my packages are libraries
or something of the sort.
Does this mean that I need to find another machine to use for a
development machine for Debian? Or is it OK to release libc5 packages
into unstable until unstable becomes stable enough to be usable?
(Ick, what an ugly sentence.. <g>)
Thanks,
John Goerzen
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I note from the `Upcoming Debian Releases' posting:
> August 31, 1997 All uploaded packages must depend on libc6.
>
> However, my experience with attempting to install even libc6 runtime
> functionality on a libc5-based system was that everything broke
> horribly due to incompatible libc versions ending up dynamically
> linked into the same binary. I was going to say see my bug report
> number XYZ, but it seems to have gotten lost ! Unfortunately I
> submitted it too long ago for my mail logs so I can't track it. I'll
> resubmit it, under the title `libc6 transition and Perl breakage'.
>
> Has this issue been fixed yet ? I think it is unreasonable to expect
> all maintainers to upload libc6 packages when the libc6 environment is
> too unstable to use.
>
> Furthermore, I trust that a libc5 upload into unstable, replacing an
> older or more buggy libc5 package, will not be rejected merely because
> of its libc5-ness ?
>
> Ian.
>
> PS: I presume you mean `must not depend on libc5' rather than `must
> depend on libc6'.
>
>
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