Re: Bug#329126: please add conflict with sarge gawk to post-sarge libc6

[Phil Blundell <pb@reciva.com>]

On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:07 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> nikita@zigzag:~> echo -n | fakeroot awk '{print}'
> awk: relocation error: awk: symbol _dl_catch_error, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference
> 
> This is fixed in post-sarge gawk 3.1.4-2.0.1.
> 
> This may affect large number of people, who upgrade to post-sarge libc6 to
> be able to install other post-sarge packages. So it seems reasonable to
> add a conflict with sarge version of gawk to current libc6 packages.

I have a feeling that adding this conflict is likely to result in gawk
just being uninstalled, and potentially taking a lot of other packages
with it, during upgrades.  If that's the case, it seems that the cure
would be rather worse than the original disease.  That said, I agree
with you that just leaving gawk in a broken state is not exactly
satisfactory either.

I've copied this note to debian-release in case the fine folks on that
list can provide any guidance.

p.