Re: curl, testing and gcc-3.2 (?) (was Re: Debian curl package depends on gcc-3.2?)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Björn Stenberg wrote:
> >     Package: libcurl2
> >     Architecture: arm
> >     Version: 7.10.4-1
> >     Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre6), ...
> 
> Sorry for being a pain, but how are these dependencies assigned?

Through the shlibdeps system. Probably, the libgcc and libc packages
decided that on ARM they should have those versioned dependencies.  The
libcurl2 package needs not do anything by itself to pick them up.

> Also, the arm build log for arm contains the following line:
> 
> checking whether to use libgcc... no

Then find out why something in the package linked to libgcc in
ARM.  And if nothing did...

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