Re: glibc 2.1 and potato

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 18:47 -0500 1999-02-04, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > 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.

That and new programs will need the GLIBC_2.1 versioned symbols.
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