Re: glibc 2.1 and potato
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:49:03AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 3 February 1999, at 19 h 17, the keyboard of Santiago Vila
> <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
>
> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1)
> ...
> > Is this good/bad nice/ugly desirable/undesirable?
>
> In my opinion, it should be avoided, IF POSSIBLE (I know that binary
> compatibility even without changing the soname is not always realistic).
It isn't at all possible in this case.
> In the future, I believe that potato packages should be, IF POSSIBLE,
> installable on slink. I do not wish to force users to upgrade their libc6 (an
> important move) just to install a package which I compiled on potato
> (specially for scientific programs which do not use the libc tricks in depth).
Unfortunately, stdin/stdout/stderr have changed. So every new program
will depend on the new libc.
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer |
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