Re: Bug#169231: tcl8.4 should be installable on woody without updating libc
Hi Chris (and libc maintainers),
Yes, you are right, I do not understand.
I don't understand why I can't install the Tcl8.4 *official* sid package onto
woody without upgrading libc... I am sorry if that might seem... strange? ;)
(See further below...)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Csan
Janos Holanyi
Association of Hungarian Linux Users
Email: csaniATlme.linux.hu
Quoting Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:57:10PM +0100, Csan wrote:
>
> > Is it a bug for me? yes
>
> No. The package is perfectly usable for you. You just don't WANT to
> do what's required to make it work (upgrade libc). That makes it a
> wishlist item.
I agree: it is a wishlist item from your (yes, more official than mine) point of
view.
> > - Does it "have a major effect on the usability of the package"?
> > yes: installing it on a stable Debian would mean undermining the
> > whole stable system
>
> Debian doesn't officially support installing unstable packages on
> stable systems. I admit that the new version of apt makes this
> *easier* than it used to be, but still, if you do that, you're on your
> own.
But you are not suggesting me an apt way - your solution would mean me totally
getting out of apt and its advantages (by making my own package).
> For this reason, issues with cross-release dependencies are NEVER bugs
> (unless they affect upgrading, which this one doesn't.)
Ok, then let me ask you the following: what was the reason of the versioned libc
dependency for tcl8.4? (I can accept an 'I don't know' answer for sure ;))
Isn't it exaggerated?
> > whereas removing that dependency on libc [...]
>
> I don't think you understand -- those dependencies are not generated
> by me. They are created by the packaging system automatically from
> the library packages. If you have a complaint about the libc
> dependency, you need to talk to the libc maintainer. I have NO WAY to
> adjust that dependency, except to downgrade libc (and everything that
> depends on it), which I'm not going to do.
There's a light! :)
Hrm... so talk to the libc maintainer? Ok, thanks, I will try to contact him.
(However, it is strange that a package maintainer does not have that level of
control over his own package...)
----
Debian libc maintainers, I am sorry for disturbing... I'd need an explanation to
the simple question: why the versioned libc dependency on Tcl8.4?
Would it be possible to adust the libc dependency so that the woody libc would
satisfy the needs of the Tcl8.4 package?
----
All the best to you all,
Cheers,
Csan
>
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