Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

[Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com>]

'bruce@va.debian.org wrote:'
>
>Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely
>is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we
>should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed
>before hamm. It's not yet clear to me that we can make this automatic with
>pre-depends or not.

I don't think we should make it automatic.  But it should be
documented in the libc5 -> libc6 transition FAQ.

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