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Bug#242546: libc6-i686: Package description: unclear about 2.6 requirements



At Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:29:05 +0200,
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> 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...

OK, I modified as follows:

 This set of libraries is optimized for i686 machines, and will only be
 used if you have an i686 class CPU (check the output of `uname -m').  This
 includes Pentium Pro, Pentium II/III/IV, Celeron CPU's and similar class
 CPU's (including clones such as AMD Athlon/Opteron, VIA C3 Nehemiah,
 but not VIA C3 Ezla).  Plus this optimized libraries will not be used
 unless you are using a 2.6 kernel.
 .
 This package includes support for NPTL.  

Regards,
-- gotom



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