packages still depending on libc5 (Re: Debian v2.0 ("Hamm") Release (RSN))
From: Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE>
Subject: Re: Debian v2.0 ("Hamm") Release (RSN)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:52:54 +0200
> > IMHO, awe-netscape and termcap-compat have enough reason to depend on
> > libc5, but userv and wm2 not. They violate our release goal of hamm
> > and it should be fixed.
>
> Whoops. I just uploaded a non-maintainer version of userv. I wonder
> why nobody has taken care of this bug. Now it's up to Brian to decide
> to either remove userv from hamm or include this upload.
We had better having a automatic dependency checking program. Some
main packages still have dependency problems (they aren't critical,
but may annoy novice users). In the testing process, I've found:
* gnats suggests emacs, which isn't exist any more.
* xfaces recommends picons, which is not in main.
> > The libc6 version of wm2 seems to have been missed around the day of
> > freeze (see BTS log of Bug#24513 for details), but we have libc6
> > version in slink. It is new upstream release with bug fix only, so
> > copying it from slink will be sufficient.
>
> It seems to be also present in hamm.
Sorry, I've missed. It is true that wm2_3-2 in hamm doesn't depend
directly on libc5, but depends on xlib6 (not xlib6g), then libc5. So
wm2_3-4 in slink should be installed to hamm.
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