Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:26:14 EST Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net)
> wrote:
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> > On 13 Jan 1997, Tony Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > Whilst trying to upgrade using the ftp method to the latest stable
> > > release (i.e. rex-fixed a.k.a. Debian-1.2.2) I have the following
> > > conflicts:
> > >
> > > dungeon depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > > abuse depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > > filerunner depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > > xfig depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > > cthugha depends on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)
> > >
> > The maintainers of these packages moved to the later libraries too soon.
> > These packages should be rebuilt against the 1.2 libc5.
>
> Some of them are from non-free and contrib, and as we've got a single contrib and non-free for both unstable and stable, these kind of things can happen.
> The only one that _should_ be recompiled is xfig, it is in buzz-fixed.
> I've opened a bug against it...
>
> For the other packages, nothing can be done (unless the maintainer is really careful). Hopefully, we should soon have a stable and unstable non-free and contrib.
>
> Note that while dpkg will complain, these programs should work correctly...
If they work correctly with the older library, then there was no reason to
build them with a "non-release" library in the first place!
>
> Phil.
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