On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 00:09, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:15:59PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > You also get a split for bug reports. > > We already cope with that; see libc6/libc6.1. Don't think that's a > problem at all. > It would be nice at some point if the BTS could have cross-package merged reports, but I suspect that's more of a headache than its worth. > > An error in the libc6 postinst > > would be reported against libc6 and lib64c6 but both use the same > > postinst file. > > Yep. *shrug* > Assuming everything in /usr/lib gets magically moved to /usr/lib64 by dpkg, what if the postinst (run after the magic moving) fiddles in /usr/lib ? You'd have to rewrite postinst as well, in which case it's no longer the same postinst file after all. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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