On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 01:21:30PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 04:45:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > I was wondering if there is a xlib6g-dbg package. I have a problem with > > > > Not yet. I have plans to make one for potato (xlib6g-dbg and xlib6-altdbg, > > both). > > Why the 'g' in the name? Why not just xlib6-dbg?
This is a very old practice dating back to pre-hamm (Debian 2.0) days. The "g" indicates that the library has been compiled against libc6 a.k.a. glibc2, the GNU C Library. libc5 and libc6 are completely incompatible from a binary point of view, and we needed a way to distinguish libraries based on libc5 from ones based on libc6. If you see a library with seemingly superfluous "g" in its name, it is the libc6 version. Libraries that have packaged for the first time after the release of hamm typically do not have a libc5 compatibility version, and omit the "g". -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Russian saying cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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