On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:04:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:09:44PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le samedi 26 mai 2007 à 21:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > > Hello, > > > > in the list of things that we can do to make it more easy to backport > > > packages, there's one important item: have a finer-grained system for > > > generating dependencies on shared libraries. > > > Another important point: such a system would help a lot to obtain lower > > testing migration times, but it would not help backports at all, since > > you still have to rebuild the package against the stable libc. > > Some research Scott James Remnant did back in the woody days indicated that > with a more finely-grained shlibs implementation, the majority of packages > could run fine against glibc 2.0. > > No such luck with lenny due to the change of symbol hash tables which > now require a recent ld.so to parse, but it'll probably take more than a > full release cycle to get this implemented and widely adopted anyway, so...
When is it supposed to happen or have happened ? Because I just tried installing libxml2 and libxml2-utils from sid on an etch system, with dpkg --force-depends, and xmllint works perfectly fine... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]