On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:03:11PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > We don't insist that every Depends: foo be Depends: foo (>= 1.2.3) > where 1.2.3 is the current unstable version. (Do we even insist > on this for other libraries?)
We don't insist upon it for glibc either. Look for "shlib" in its changelog, and read chapter 9 of policy. If you want to relax these dependencies correctly, then the correct approach is to develop a way for glibc to declare which symbol versions require which minimum version, and get dpkg-shlibdeps to use it. You'll need to be familiar with how symbol versioning works, though, and frankly I suspect it would be a lot of effort for little gain. People with those skills would be better occupied fixing the bugs in glibc instead. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
