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Re: uClibc status



On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:38 +0100, Simon Richter wrote:
>  - On all architectures, the package "uclibc0.9.30rc3" contains all
>    run-time libraries in a single package.

Do we need the full version string within the package name? Is the ABI
that unstable? Is it likely to stabilise? I don't fancy all those binary
rebuilds. Or is that actually "uclibc_0.9.30rc3" or uclibc0? uclibc0.9
might be OK.
                                    ^^^
>  - On 64-bit architectures that have a -m32 variant (amd64 only, I think),
>    "uclibc32-0.9.30rc3" provides a 32-bit build, and "lib32uclibc-dev"
>    provides the static libraries and .so symlink for that.

That forces every reverse depends to update to the latest uclibc every
time a new upload is made, it doesn't allow for migrations where
lib32uclibc0.9-dev sits alongside lib32uclibc0.10-dev. glibc transitions
are painful and protracted.

> For the "emdebian" vendor:
> 
>  - On all architectures, "libc0.9.30rc3uc" provides libc, "libm0.9.30rc3uc"
>    contains libm, and so on.
>  - 32/64 bit variant builds are named "lib32c0.9.30rc3uc" and
>    "lib64c0.9.30rc3uc", respectively

libc0.9uc ? Is that ABI really going to change that much between rc3 and
rc4 or between 0.9.30* and 0.9.31 ?

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