> > It seems we don't have such "compatibility" packages for Debian; > > what am I missing? Could one install slink's glibc2.0 in a > > non-obstrusive way under potato or woody? > > Maybe you could use alien and install the rpm? I thing potato and > woody is totally commited to 2.1 >
Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros have? I'm CC'ing this post to debian-devel (the right place to talk about this issue). Taupter