Bug#183155: libc-udeb: libpthread is needed for the gtk-frontend

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At 4 Mar 2003 17:38:22 +0100,
Sebastian Ley wrote:
> 
> * Jeff Bailey wrote:
> 
> > At that point, libc-udeb would be the same as the regular libc
> > packages. It makes having the libc udeb pointless then - you may as
> > well use the regular deb.
> 
> sebastian@coyote:~$ dpkg -I libc-udeb_2.3.1-14_i386.udeb 
> [...]
>  Installed-Size: 1328
> [...]
> sebastian@coyote:~$ dpkg -I libc6_2.3.1-14_i386.deb 
> [...]
>  Installed-Size: 12124
> [...]
> 
> ...with libpthread eating up about 80 kB. I do not know if the
> inclusion of libpthread involves adding of more files, but if not I do
> not see the problem. Since we would only need it for the graphical
> installer, perhaps it is possible to package lipthreads into a new
> udeb?

It's nice to support graphical installer in debian!
OK, simply adding libpthread.so into .udeb is sufficient for you?

> Excuse me if am talking total nonsense, surely things are much more
> complicated than I can imagine for now.

I don't know about .udeb things in detail, so please check in the next
-15.

Regards,
-- gotom