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Bug#170385: libc6 should conflict with wine (<< 0.0.20021007-1) and perhaps other packages



Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-5
Severity: grave


libc6 should conflict with wine (<< 0.0.20021007-1) because earlier wine
packages don't work with glibc 2.3 (see #165323). Technically the usage
of __libc_fork was a bug in Wine. Without a conflict in libc6 many people 
doing a partial upgrade from Debian 3.0 to Debian 3.1 will have a new
libc6 together with an old version of wine installed which will result in
a non-working Wine. A conflict in libc6 is the only possible solution to
avoid this.

If there are other packages with a similar problem similar conflicts are
needed.

I set the severity to "grave" since from a user's point of view the new
libc6 package breaks wine. If you disagree feel free to lower the severity.






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