Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64

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

At Mon, 13 Sep 2004 09:21:39 +0200,
Andreas Jochens wrote:
> However, I suspect that this magic is not necessary on amd64
> since the amd64 archive works without it. Do we really need 
> linuxthreads on amd64? We do not (and will never) support 2.4 kernels 
> on amd64, so I guess it is not necessary to have linuxthreads.
> I recompiled the whole archive without having linuxthreads in the 
> glibc binary packages and only five packages needed minor changes to 
> build properly with that setup.

Using 2.4 or 2.6 kernel is user's decision.  I guess amd64 2.4 kernel
is also used a lot, but I don't know the fact.  Note that pthread is
used in various places, even users do not notice.

If we drop amd64 2.4 kernel + pthread support, I think it's safe to
stop libc6 installation if amd64 2.4 kernel is used.  libc6.preinst
does such kernel version sanity checking.  Is it also acceptable for
you and users?

Regards,
-- gotom