On 2009-07-28 19:44 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > I have recently uploaded to experimental eglibc 2.9-23+multiarch, from > our multiarch branch. It doesn't use the multiarch paths yet, but it is > a first step toward multiarch. > > The only difference with the unstable version is that libc-bin and > libc-dev-bin are splitted out of libc6 and libc6-dev. This way it > complies with the Debian Policy requirement that the libraries should > not contain binaries, which is also a requirement for multiarch. > > Please test it and report possible problems related to this package > split. If no problem are detected, it will be uploaded to unstable as > soon as the current version migrates to testing. This way it will leave > space in experimental for eglibc 2.10. > > Note that it is currently not yet available on all architectures, please > wait for the experimental buildds to do their jobs.
I was not patient enough for that and built the packages myself instead on i386. The result is not quite satisfactory, in a Lenny chroot they cannot be installed due to a dependency cycle: ,---- | # cat /etc/debian_version | 5.0.2 | turtle:/# LANG=C apt-get dist-upgrade | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Calculating upgrade... Done | The following NEW packages will be installed: | libc-bin | The following packages will be upgraded: | libc6 libc6-dev locales | 3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B/13.9MB of archives. | After this operation, 6042kB of additional disk space will be used. | Do you want to continue [Y/n]? | WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! | libc6-dev locales libc6 libc-bin | Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y | E: Couldn't configure pre-depend libc-bin for libc6, probably a dependency cycle. `---- Same problem with aptitude, and this is the reason: libc6 2.9-23+multiarch Pre-Depends on libc-bin (= 2.9-23+multiarch) which in turn Depends on libc6 (>> 2.9), so if you didn't have libc6 2.9-x already installed, you're hosed. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
