Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1

[Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 04:39:06PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> Could you please provide details about the problem of having the
> symlinks in glibc?
> 
> Is it that glibc has a versioned Replaces: base-files and dpkg removes
> the symlink in base-files before installing the one from glibc,
> creating a big window during which /lib64 does not exist at all?

glibc (libc6) does not replace base-files.  Why should it?

Last time I looked getting it into glibc I couldn't figure out
where to change the rules files to put it in the package so I've
never really tried this.  Maybe Andreas still knows how he
patched it?


Kurt