On 2011-07-01 10:31 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Currently libc-bin is virtually essential: a lot of essential packages > depend on libc6 which in turn depends on libc-bin. This package has been > created during the first steps of the multiarch transition two years > ago, and all the binaries have been moved there. Note that libc-bin > doesn't depend on libc6 while it should, in order to avoid recursive > dependencies. > > It appears that libc-bin provides a few required POSIX binaries [1], > and should therefore be essential.
That seems right to me. > This would also solve the recursive > dependency between libc6 and libc-bin, and allow for an hypothetical > libc7 transition in the future. If libc6 were to drop its dependency on libc-bin now, it would be possible to remove libc-bin after a partial upgrade. Therefore I would suggest to postpone changing the dependencies until an essential libc-bin is in stable. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-glibc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k4c1j6g9....@turtle.gmx.de