Re: hppa nptl switch

["Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@systemhalted.org>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Frans Pop<elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>> In practice it shouldn't be problem at all.
>>> Debian should make sure that binary/library compiled
>>> against NPTL-hppa-glibc will require NPTL-hppa-glibc
>>> by proper Depends: line like "libc6 (>= 2.10)".
>>
>> Does every package have to do this? I'm not very familiar with all the
>> packaging requirements.
>
> It is something that should automatically get done correctly as long as
> the libc-dev package defines the minimum version that way.
>
> The mechanism that determines this is in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs.
> Currently this has lines like:
>   libc 6 libc6 (>= 2.9)
>
> It's virtually certain that the shlibs file will be updated to read
> '(>= 2.10)' when the glibc maintainers switch to that version.

Thanks Frans. This is what I expected.

Cheers,
Carlos.