Re: Not everyone is linking shared libraries to libc

[kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

hartmans@mit.edu (Sam Hartman)  wrote on 24.02.01 in <[🔎] tslelwnemoe.fsf@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>:

> >>>>> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:
>
>
>     Wichert> It seems not everyone is linking their libraries to libc,
>     Wichert> which is needed (see policy section 9.2.2 for details). I
>     Wichert> wrote a little tool to check if libraries are linked to
>     Wichert> libc and on my system it reports:
>
> I certainly don't see how the text of policy section 9.2.2 mandates
> linking against libc.  The footnote comes closer, but even that seems
> to imply that all I need to do is make sure that some library in my
> package links against libc so that the dependencies come out right.
> Note that the footnote does not have the force of policy.

Is this another policy than that in the debian-policy package? Because  
that does only seem to go up to 6.*, not 9.*. Unless the one in unstable  
happens to be rather different from the one in testing, that is, in which  
case I'd say we have a serious problem.

But it does contain libc6-migration.text, which does spell this out.

MfG Kai