On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 02:12:27AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:32:50AM -0500, Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea why libgnomeui33 and libstdc++2.1 are now listed
> > as obsolete in unstable? I can't exactly file bugs against them, and many
> > packages depend on each of these. I've been used to having 2 obselete
> > packages listed for me (pine since it was locally compiled and fancylogin,
> > since I'm not yet ready to move to francine), but why the sudden dropping
> > of what seems to me to be fairly important libraries?
> The libstdc++2.10 library is now libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2. All packages
> compiled against latest libstdc++2.10-dev will depend on the -glibc2.2
> package. The naming was chosen to avoid binary incompatibilities in
> stdc++ when compiled against different glibc's (i.e. 2.1.3 in potato and
> 2.2.x in woody/sid).
Erm, so is it possible to just have a dummy libstdc++2.10 package in
sid that just depends: on the -glibc2.2 package to satisfy dependencies?
Cheers,
aj
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