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Re: force libc6 >= 2.2 in autossh



On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:03:11PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote:
> We don't insist that every Depends: foo be Depends: foo (>= 1.2.3)
> where 1.2.3 is the current unstable version.  (Do we even insist
> on this for other libraries?)

We don't insist upon it for glibc either. Look for "shlib" in its
changelog, and read chapter 9 of policy.

If you want to relax these dependencies correctly, then the correct
approach is to develop a way for glibc to declare which symbol versions
require which minimum version, and get dpkg-shlibdeps to use it. You'll
need to be familiar with how symbol versioning works, though, and
frankly I suspect it would be a lot of effort for little gain. People
with those skills would be better occupied fixing the bugs in glibc
instead.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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