On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 03:25:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 12:12:46PM -0600, David Engel wrote: > > > There is a very serious error in the xlib6 package. The libraries > > were built with libc6 when they should have been built with libc5. If > > a user installs this package, it will break any libc5-based X programs > > they have. > > *sigh* I thought I had avoided this. I will set about correcting this ASAP. It *appears*, on first analysis, that a simple one-character typo caused xlib6 to be actually built with the right libraries, but dpkg-shlibdeps was called told to read shlibs information from the wrong file, and claims dependency on the wrong libc. If true, this means you can do a --force-depends install of xlib6 with your old libc5 around and it will work. Would anyone care to test this? I will, but it will be a few hours before I can get back to my home machine and check this out for myself. As others have pointed out, netsape is a good litmus test program for this problem. Once I have the answer, I'll do another build and hopefully have 3.3.2-2 uploaded tomorrow. Was X this much grief for Stephen Early and Mark Eichin? I apologize for the buggy build. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@purdue.edu | -- George Bernard Shaw http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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