On Thursday 26 November 1998, at 15 h 20, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, it is /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.shlibs which provide the unwanted > constraint: > > libc 6 libc6 (>= 2.0.7u-6) I wrote that without reading changelog.Debian which documents it: > glibc (2.0.7u-2) unstable; urgency=low * added (>=2.0.7u) to shlibs, as this version is not backward compatible * with earlier versions: fixes 27314 OK, I understand what happens now, but it leaves me with three questions: 1) Is there a way to override this constraint if I am sure I can live with an older libc? /etc/dpkg/shlibs.* does not seem to do it, since the libc6.shlibs is sourced after them. 2) It means that every package compiled on a slink machine will not run on hamm (which uses 2.0.7t) unless the hamm machine gets at least a libc upgrade. It annoys me. We lose an important backward compatibility. 3) Who knows how to get a closed bug report? The bug system apparently erased everything about 27314 :-(
