Re: glibc 2.1 and compatibility (Was: slink is gone, goals for potato?
On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 01:07:42PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wednesday 3 March 1999, at 19 h 43, the keyboard of Hamish Moffatt
> <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > Lots of slink packages depend on libc6 >= 2.0.7u;
>
> This was a mistake in one version of libc6-dev, related to the
> register-frame-info problem (it was fixed later and the libc6-dev in slink is
> correct) I seriously suggested several times that all the packages with that
> mistake should be recompiled to avoid uneeded dependencies.
OK, my mistake.
I still think it is impossible to always have backwards compatibility like
this. It means we can never move forward much.
Hamish
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