On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Frans Pop<[email protected]> wrote: > Carlos O'Donell wrote: >>> In practice it shouldn't be problem at all. >>> Debian should make sure that binary/library compiled >>> against NPTL-hppa-glibc will require NPTL-hppa-glibc >>> by proper Depends: line like "libc6 (>= 2.10)". >> >> Does every package have to do this? I'm not very familiar with all the >> packaging requirements. > > It is something that should automatically get done correctly as long as > the libc-dev package defines the minimum version that way. > > The mechanism that determines this is in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs. > Currently this has lines like: > libc 6 libc6 (>= 2.9) > > It's virtually certain that the shlibs file will be updated to read > '(>= 2.10)' when the glibc maintainers switch to that version.
Thanks Frans. This is what I expected. Cheers, Carlos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
