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... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
