On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:14:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:56:30AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > I don't see a way how this could be handled outside the dependencies of > > > libc6. One possible solution is to create a libdb1g package in oldlibs and > > > let the libc6 in sarge depend on this package (the dependency can be > > > dropped after sarge is released). > > > > Sounds like a good idea. Someone has already offered to do exactly this > > (and please don't use the "g" extension, it dates back to hamm, and > > serves no good purpose nowadays). > > There is one problem there in that there's already a libdb1 package > providing libdb.so.1.85.4, and although the differences are small I > think they're enough for it to be incompatible. The compatibility > package would have to be called something else.
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