Re: Slink to potato upgrade
On 21-Mar-99 Kevin Dalley wrote:
> After working with a broken system for about a week, I believe that
> there is only one solution. We have to allow both glibc2 and glib2.1
> to be installed at the same time. We should change the soname for
> glib2.1. Only packages which are tested with glib2.1 should link with
> glib2.1. Even if all of the Debian packages in 2.2 work with the new
> libraries, Debian users will have problems with their programs. Let's
> play it safe and change the soname.
>
Erm, wouldn't this have the side effect of breaking binary compatibility with
every other soon to be glibc2.1 distribution? Wouldn't this be a BAD thing?
Isaac
non-developer, and proud of it.
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