On Sun, 27 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > Some research Scott James Remnant did back in the woody days indicated that > > with a more finely-grained shlibs implementation, the majority of packages > > could run fine against glibc 2.0. > > > > No such luck with lenny due to the change of symbol hash tables which > > now require a recent ld.so to parse, but it'll probably take more than a > > full release cycle to get this implemented and widely adopted anyway, so... > > When is it supposed to happen or have happened ? Because I just tried > installing libxml2 and libxml2-utils from sid on an etch system, with > dpkg --force-depends, and xmllint works perfectly fine...
The change hash-style=gnu happened with gcc-4.1 4.1.2-5 although the version -7 changes this again to hash-style=both. In the mean time, libc6 2.5-5 bumped its shlibs to avoid problems with packages compiled with a gcc using hash-style=gnu. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421790 So maybe the problem affects only some architectures which do not support hash-style=both? What arches do not support this? For me it would seem wise to keep hash-style=both for the entire lenny cycle and drop it during the lenny+1 cycle to have a smooth transition on this aspect. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]