Re: Summary of Package Overlaps
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
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> On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
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> > On 5 Feb 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
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> > > dark@xs4all.nl (Richard Braakman) writes:
> > >
> > > > We're now up to 30 overlaps, partly due to the presence of libc5-dev
> > > > in hamm
> > >
> > > There should be no libc5-dev in hamm. Dale wanted to use the
> > > identical source for hamm and bo-updates, but that doesn't work very
> > > well.
> >
> > Can you 'splain? The current libc5-dev works fine on bo systems and is
> > replaced properly by libc6-dev on a hamm machine, so where is the problem?
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> I think the problem is that there should be no libc5-dev *in hamm*.
> We have already libc5-altdev...
The libc5-dev in hamm has a very specific purpose, to provide a
libc5-dev/libc5 combo that can coexist with libc6 for those people who
don't want to upgrade their entire compilation environment. Unfortuantly
the version created and updated is missing the "Conflicts/Provides:
libc-dev" that is standard for libc-dev packages. When that is added, the
package should coexist fine.
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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