On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:07:08AM -0500, paul wrote: > BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT ALL THREADS ON DEVEL PERTAINING > TO LIBC6 PROBLEMS. > > Sorry about the all caps. ;-) but I believe its in order. There is > currently a problem with the libc6 package that the maintainer is > working on right now. Libc6 was incoporated into a different package > (libc6-bin or something like), which now conflicts with and replaces > libc6. Several threads on debian-devel explain the problem more > fully. I would always reccomend thoroughly scanning debian-devel for > upgrade issues before you "apt-get dist-upgrade" so you don't get bit.
Unless things have changed since yesterday, libc6-bin was incorporated into libc6. This will cause problems with netscape-base-4 (and by extention other netscape 4 packages) and w3c. There is also currently a problem with xscreensaver depending on perl instead of perl5, causing many more problems. WindowMaker also seems to have some unresolved issues. There was a thread yesterday on Debian-user about this, as well as the mentioned threads on devel. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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