Probably the culprit, something changed incompatibly.

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

reassign 174540 libc6
thanks

I think the relevant portion is in the following bits in 
debian/patches/cvs.dpatch, which probably needs to be backed out or something.




diff -urN -x CVS -x .cvsignore -x '*texi' -x '*manual*' glibc-2.3.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Ver
sions /home/jeffb/cvstree/libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Versions
--- glibc-2.3.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Versions   2002-08-28 19:39:22.000000000 -0400
+++ /home/jeffb/cvstree/libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/Versions      2002-11-10 15:15:00.00000000
0 -0500
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   # for all GNU/Linux configurations.
 
   GLIBC_2.0 {
-    #errlist-compat    1134
+    #errlist-compat    123
     _sys_errlist; sys_errlist; _sys_nerr; sys_nerr;
 
     # Exception handling support functions from libgcc
@@ -21,16 +21,11 @@
     # s*
     sysmips;
   }
-  GLIBC_2.1 {
+  GLIBC_2.2 {
     #errlist-compat    1134
     _sys_errlist; sys_errlist; _sys_nerr; sys_nerr;
-  }
-  GLIBC_2.2 {
+
     # _*
     _test_and_set;
   }
-  GLIBC_2.3 {
-    #errlist-compat    1134
-    _sys_errlist; sys_errlist; _sys_nerr; sys_nerr;
-  }
 }