Re: Proposed recompilation to remove dependency on libc6 2.0.7u

[Martin Schulze <joey@carelia.infodrom.north.de>]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Santiago Vila wrote:
> > As of today, there are several *essential* packages having this >= 2.0.7u
> > thing in the Pre-Depends field.

dpkg refuses to unpack these packages.  So you need to install the new libc
first.  Will the old hamm packages work with the new libc?  If so no
recompilation is required.  If not, they need to be recompiled, of course.

If older packages will work with the newer libc, the user just has to install
libc6 first.  This will be automatically handled by dselect and apt-get, right?

> Here is the list for the interested: bsdutils, util-linux, ncurses-bin, dpkg,
> findutils, shellutils, mount, e2fsprogs, sysvinit, bash.

Anyway, since these are only less than a dozen packages this sounds doable.
Did any of these maintainer leave already?

bsdutils:    Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>
util-linux:  Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
ncurses-bin: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
dpkg:        Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
findutils:   Kevin Dalley <kevind@rahul.net>
shellutils:  Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
mount:       Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>
e2fsprogs:   Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
sysvinit:    Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
bash:        Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>

Regards,

	Joey

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