Bug#167292: ITP: libc12 -- NetBSD C library

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

At Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:54:10 -0700,
Joel Baker wrote:
> 
> > BTW, what does "12" of libc12 mean?
> 
> I will be happy to name the binaries netbsd-libc12 when the current libc6
> becomes gnu-libc6 or glibc6; certainly the source package name might
> change, but since there are exactly 0 platforms which will ever have both
> GNU libc and NetBSD libc (they are exclusive and must be separated by arch,
> since binaries depend on one or other other), it is simpler to have the
> binary packages named consistantly. FreeBSD's is libc4, though they are
> using GNU libc instead; the Hurd has libc0.2 as their package name.

ITP should state the name of the source package.

Hence, I think your ITP should have said something like, "source
package netbsd-libc, which builds a binary package libc12."




regards,
	junichi