Bug#242546: libc6-i686: Package description: unclear about 2.6 requirements
Package: libc6-i686
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
Severity: minor
The package description says:
| This package includes support for NPTL. The optimized libraries will
| not be used unless you are using a 2.6 kernel.
It is unclear (at least to me, so probably also to others) whether this
means that:
- optimized NPTL functions will only be used with 2.6 kernels, the rest
will work with either 2.4 or 2.6
or,
- this whole package, libc6-i686, will only be used with 2.6 kernels
The two sentences are on the same paragraph (suggesting they are
related), but this is not clear from the wording...
--Jeroen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8
Versions of packages libc6-i686 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- no debconf information
--
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen@wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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