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Bug#330735: glibc: Binaries in library debs



Package: glibc
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

the libc6 and libc6-dev packages contain binaries as well as the shared libs.
This makes it impossible for future soname changes to coexist. While this
might not be a big concern for libc6 it also affects the multiarch plans.
The libc6:i386 and libc6:amd64 packages would have file overlaps.

Please split out the binaries into seperate libc6-bin and libc6-bin-dev
packages.

libc6: /sbin/ldconfig
libc6: /usr/bin/ldd
libc6: /usr/bin/iconv
libc6: /usr/bin/zdump
libc6: /usr/bin/rpcinfo
libc6: /usr/bin/tzselect
libc6: /usr/bin/getconf
libc6: /usr/bin/getent
libc6: /usr/bin/locale
libc6: /usr/bin/localedef
libc6: /usr/bin/catchsegv
libc6: /usr/sbin/zic
libc6: /usr/sbin/tzconfig
libc6: /usr/sbin/iconvconfig

libc6-dev: /usr/bin/gencat
libc6-dev: /usr/bin/mtrace
libc6-dev: /usr/bin/rpcgen

MfG
	Goswin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-rc5+skas3+acl
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)



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