--- Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally, we just use the standard Debian archive. However, sometimes we > upload packages to alpha.gnu.org. This is usually for one of two reasons: > 1. The Debian version doesn't compile without changes, and takes a long > time to fix. > 2. We need a dummy package to fix broken dependencies, like versioned > dependencies on libc6-dev packages, which take a long time to fix, too.
I think if a package depends on a versioned libc6-dev it is broken. Doesn't the alpha port use libc6.1-dev? So, if a versioned libc-dev is needed, the maintainer should list libc0.3-dev, libc6-dev, and libc6.1-dev. > > This happens spontaneous, as we find such issues. > > Thanks, > Marcus > ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com