Re: Not everyone is linking shared libraries to libc

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 12:43:00AM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > 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.

jdg@auric:~$ madison debian-policy
debian-policy |    3.1.1.1 |        stable | all
debian-policy |    3.2.1.0 |       testing | all
debian-policy |    3.5.2.0 |      unstable | all
jdg@auric:~$ 

And in update_excuses.html:

<li>debian-policy 3.5.2.0 (currently 3.2.1.0) (optional) (low)
<ul>
<li>Maintainer: Debian Policy List &lt;debian-policy@lists.debian.org&gt;

    <li>only 5/10 days old
    <li>not considered
</ul></li>

So if I stop modifying it for a bit, we'll stand a chance of it
getting into testing ;-)

   Julian

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