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Re: glibc 2.1 and potato



On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Joel Klecker wrote:

> 'deb http://www.debian.org/%7Eespy/ glibc-2.1/binary-$(ARCH)/'. I 
> don't intend to upload to unstable until a) slink is released and b) 
> it has been decided how to deal with the libstdc++2.9 issue[0].
> There are also some other libraries (besides libstdc++) that need to 
> be recompiled to allow new programs to link against them, such as 
> ncurses (and any other library that uses libio (you can tell by 
> looking for _IO_* symbols)), however in that case, the new libraries 
> will continue to work with old programs.

Uhm, it will be ... lots of libraries. 
gorgo@lovi:/usr/lib$ grep -l _IO_ *.so | wc -l
     54
This is more than half of the installed libs...

So it is only the libstdc++ library that needs a new soname ? The others
don't ?


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