Bug#158589: libc6: please provide an udeb
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:23:28PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> Package: libc6
> Severity: wishlist
> Priority: high, pretty please, with sugar on top.
>
> Debian-installer will need an udeb with the full libc6.so in it. (It
> doesn't need to have any old symbols -- actually, it would be nice if
> it didn't have old symbols, because of the size issue). (See
> debian-installer module in debian-boot cvs for some information about
> udebs, if you don't know them yet).
>
> We need libdl and libm as well in there.
Debian installer using a udeb for libc/libm/libdl/ldso, doesn't make
much sense to me. Even if we get rid of the backward compatibility,
you're still looking at over 800k just for libc.so.6, and then 80k for
ld-linux.so.2. That doesn't even include libm/libdl.
I suspect debian-installer will need to have a dynamic module for when
an install image is built, based on the symbols it needs, and then use
mklibs (like boot-floppies does) to get a stripped down libc from
libc6-pic.
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