Bug#271298: glibc: Please use nptl instead of linuxthreads on amd64
At Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:59:25 +0200,
Andreas Jochens wrote:
> Yes, this is acceptable.
>
> The current amd64 port does not support the 2.4 kernel at all.
> There is no kernel-image-2.4 package in the amd64 archives
> and I think there never will be one. The 2.4 kernel does not support
> the amd64 architecture very well and upstream does not do any
> kernel-2.4 development for amd64 or backports to 2.4 for amd64
> as far as I know.
OK, I agree that we don't support any kernel-image-2.4 debs, we don't
need to be care about linuxthreads things. I've put your
modification, thanks. I also introduce that if kernel is not 2.6,
glibc preinst stops its installation with warning messages.
Regards,
-- gotom
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