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Re: GLIBC_2_2_3 ??



On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 08:17:27AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> * Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> [010411 21:57]:
> > forced installation against dependencies, because I increase the
> > shlibdeps correctly.
> 
> Actually, if perl gets upgraded before the new library is installed, and
> something else being upgraded... say the c++ libs, needs perl for its
> postinstall script, you get this error.
> 
> Or at least this happened last time I upgraded a few hundred packages :)
> 
> Version: 5.6.0-21
> Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.0-21), perl-modules (= 5.6.0-21), libc6 (>=
> 2.2.1-2), libdb2, libgdbmg1
> Version: 2.2.2-4
> 
> I've got the feeling perl isn't doing the libdeps right.  I haven't had
> time to investigate much though, and my experience so far with sending
> in bugs is that if they aren't right people sometimes get decently
> hostile that you even think their package has another bug.
> :)

It is surely perl's bug. I can see that it depends on "libdb2" which is
terribly incorrect (and is not derived from the packages shlibdeps).

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