Another silly newbie q: What's an NMU? Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Thomas Quinot [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 12. august 1999 14:45 > Til: Jason Gunthorpe > Cc: recipient list not shown > Emne: Re: WARNING: APT removes bash on slink upgrade > > Le 1999-08-12, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait : > > > This is due to a recent bash NMU which now pre-depends on the potato > > libreadlineg2 which conflicts with the slink bash. > > > > Bash -MUST- be re-uploaded with the proper changes made so that it can > > exist with the slink libreadlineg2 ASAP. > > This is not so simple. Bash is unusable with slink's libreadline. > Three bugs of severity important existed in the BTS for this > problem, which the recent NMU attempts to fix: #35130, #39280, #41802. > > On the other hand, the current libreadline is binary-incompatible > with the slink bash, so the conflicts: cannot be removed; the > major version on libreadline should have been bumped when > libreadline was first compiled against glibc 2.1. > > More generally, it is unfortunate that such intricated dependencies > exist between bash and libreadline, with bash being a package of > paramount importance for the operation of the whole system. > Maybe it would be preferrable to link bash statically and get rid > of its dependency on readline. On the other hand, such important > change is far out of the scope of an NMU. > > For now I can reupload bash with the latest change undone. Unfortunately, > this means that an important problem which renders bash unusable will > have to stay open. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <URL:http://web.fdn.fr/~tquinot/>
