Re: New libc6 breaks exim?
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:50:47PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Furthermore, I think we must follow whatever RedHat has done here, or
> > bully them into adding versioning.. If our libdb.* libraries do not have
> > the same symbols as theirs do then we have lost inter-dist binary
> > compatibility.
>
> Well I think following redhat's lead no matter how broken is a very bad
> path to go down. Raise a stink instead.
Redhat does neither of the things suggested. Instead, they have a
compat-lib package that basically copies around the old RH 6.2
libdb.so.[23]. IOW, they aren't compiling it anymore. They are copying it.
With our policy, we can't do anything like this.
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