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Re: glibc 2.1 and compatibility (Was: slink is gone, goals for potato?



At 13:25 +0100 1999-03-03, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>Will we have at least a libc6-dev which can coexist with libc6.1-dev
>so I don't have to run two machines to make my packages?

That is impossible.

In hamm, there was two environments (-dev and -altdev) to develop for libc6 and >libc5. Why would it be impossible for potato? "I have no time to do it" is a >valid reason but "impossible" is not, unless you explain.

There is no soname difference, the GNU architecture is not different. It *is* impossible. Note by the way that there is no convincing me otherwise on going forward with glibc 2.1 in potato. You are just going to have to live with it.
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