Re: Debian 1.2.2 and dependency on libc5 (>= 5.4.17-1)

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:26:14 EST Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net) 
wrote:

> 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...

Phil.



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