Re: Slink to potato upgrade
Anthony Towns wrote:
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> As far as dodgy programs relying on undocumented features, I've no idea
> what could be done. Redoing those features just for jdk might be a good
> idea, maybe. :-/
>
I have wondered about putting a copy of glibc2.0 into oldlibs and providing
wrappers for programs (such as StarOffice) which break, and which we cant
change. (Note I have not yet tried this, so I don't know if it will work)
> I'm assuming changing the so-name isn't an option since that means glibc2.1
> programs compiled under RedHat won't run on a Debian system and vice-versa.
>
Agreed
> Just 2c from someone who doesn't really know what the issues are.
>
Ditto
John Lines
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