Re: problems in upgrade
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
> Would be possible to get rid of them in woody by recompiling and
> remove the dependency of libc6 on libdb2 altogether?
It won't really help. It was perl that was broken in the original problem,
which is linked against libdb.so.3 in potato. So if you remove the
dependency on libdb2, then perl will break when libc6 gets upgraded.
>> We could always do what redhat has done, and copy the libdb.so.3 from
>> the glibc 2.1.3 binaries, and use them in the libdb2 package. That means
>> it will work when 2.1.3 is still installed, and before libc6 2.2.x is
>> unpacked. The solution will work, since we don't need libdb.so.3
>> compatibility for new archs (since they have never compiled anything
>> against it).
>>
>> I loathe this solution, but if it's prefered, I'll implment it.
> This sounds better than an unsolved dependency/pre-dependency loop,
> and even better than recompiling a lot of packages.
I agree.
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