a couple notes on the libc 2.1 packages
Actually all of these pertain only to the auxiliary packages.
- The egcs-based gcc package should conflict with and replace egcc.
Otherwise, you need to manually remove egcc before installing the new
gcc package, or dpkg will complain about several zillion file conflicts.
- There's something weird going on with the libstdc++ packages.
libstdc++ linked with libc 2.1 is supposed to be backward compatible
with C++ binaries linked with libc 2.0. (If this doesn't work,
upstream would really like to know about it.) The libstdc++ packages
have been set up such that a C++ program linked with the old
libstdc++2.9 keeps using it, and this does not work. So any C++
program segfaults until relinked.
- The ncurses package is not the same as the one in slink (is it the
same as the one in potato?) and so I get warnings like
less: symbol `ospeed' is a different size in shared object
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