Re: Proposed recompilation to remove dependency on libc6 2.0.7u

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>]

Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Previously Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > As of today, there are several *essential* packages having this >= 2.0.7u
> > > thing in the Pre-Depends field.
> > 
> > Here is the list for the interested: bsdutils, util-linux, ncurses-bin, dpkg,
> > findutils, shellutils, mount, e2fsprogs, sysvinit, bash.
> 
> Fine. Would anyone object to filing important bugs against these?

I would object if old hamm packages work with the new libc.  In
that case there is no important bug.

May I quote myself:
| 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?

Regards,

	Joey

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