Bug#462444: fixed in glibc 2.8+20080809-1

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:32:16PM +0000, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >    * control.in/main: build-depends on dpkg (>= 1.14.17).
> >    * Add symbols files for the various libraries, based on a patch by
> >      Raphaël Hertzog.  Closes: #462444.
> >    * localedata/supported.diff: sort locales by alphabetical order.  Closes:
> >      #493231.
> 
> I have just removed the symbols files from the glibc, because dpkg-dev
> currently doesn't have support for ignoring private symbols from 
> libraries. This causes problems like this one on nscd:
> 
>   Depends: glibc-private, libc6 (>= 2.8)
> 
> Until this feature is supported in dpkg-dev, this bug is a wontfix.

You have two solutions:
- do like all other libraries and generate a dependency on libc6 for
  private symbols as well
- add "-xglibc-private" to the dpkg-shlibdeps calls in the glibc source
  package to skip that dependency

I would go for the second solution.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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